Example sentences of "[pron] in his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has in fact got a job , now his father mentions it , and an astonishingly good one , too , for someone in his first year down from university . |
| 2 | Six years later , in 1980 , he moved south of the Border to take on the role of TMcL 's UK managing partner and promptly landed himself in his first hot seat . |
| 3 | In reasserting his paternal authority , and finding his old political touch , Louis showed himself in his last years a conspicuous success . |
| 4 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 5 | Willis 's 5 for 42 clearly inspired Roberts , who in his first four overs sent back Steele , Hayes and Balderstone : Woolmer and Willey took the score to 80 before the former departed , and Willey and Greig then looked as though they might turn the match England 's way . |
| 6 | Of the many people involved , three in particular stand out — Andreas Prindl FCIB , Chairman of the Institute 's Eastern European Working Party ; Alan Dearden FCIB , a Know Fund consultant , who in his first year organised over 1,000 weeks of banking training ; and Jack Storer OBE , Hon FCIB , who was in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 7 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 8 | But in Toby 's experience friendship between a boy in his fourth year and one in his second was a rare occurrence , and one which would usually be a particular sort of friendship . |
| 9 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 10 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |
| 11 | Doshi added : ‘ You could see the confidence in him in his first Test match . |
| 12 | Cerberus is nonetheless fallible , for HERCULES managed to overpower him in his Twelfth Labour with his bare hands while Orpheus lulled him to sleep with soft music . |
| 13 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 14 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 15 | Sharir had served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1988 , and according to Israeli political commentators he nursed a grudge against Shamir for not including him in his last Cabinet . |
| 16 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 17 | This may depend on their level of awareness , or , as Edward de Bono puts it in his Second Law of Thinking , what appears to be ‘ proof ’ is often no more than a lack of imagination in providing an alternative explanation . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old Iro picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in the second Test in Auckland in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly three weeks ago . |
| 19 | He picked up the injury playing against Great Britain in July and aggravated it in his last match for Manly . |
| 20 | He must tell Fouché about it in his next report . |
| 21 | Anyway , she said , we 'll have to ask him , or he 'll be even ruder about us in his next article . |