Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprise Offer was running without blinkers and Hannon said : ‘ He 'll definitely wear them for his next race , the Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot . ’ |
| 2 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 3 | Butch hit a decent shot down the first , and then turned round to ask me about his second shot . |
| 4 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 5 | The Raasay ferry takes only a handful of vehicles and rather more passengers , and travels frequently , and if the ferryman finds that he has no room for you on his last run of the day from Raasay back to Sconser he will return . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 9 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 10 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 11 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 12 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 13 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 14 | His wife of 37 years , Nesta , stood by him during his first public humiliation . |
| 15 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 16 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 17 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 18 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 19 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 20 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 21 | Doshi added : ‘ You could see the confidence in him in his first Test match . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When Monmouth was executed , Ken was sent for to attend him in his last hours . |
| 24 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 28 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 29 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 30 | Supporters carried lighted torches to welcome him to his 15th and final rally in Taunton last night , giving some credence to his claim that ‘ beacons are being lit all across the West Country ’ . |