Example sentences of "[vb past] to his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 2 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 3 | When ambitions to become an opera singer and then a sports writer failed , he turned to his third interest — car racing . |
| 4 | Edward , his nerves jangling , turned to his next client . |
| 5 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 6 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 7 | But note that Ratner differs from other exploiters of the Thatcher Years in that he stuck to his last . |
| 8 | Having reached 50 off 71 balls , Simmons was unstoppable as he sprinted to his third hundred in one-day internationals from a mere 102 balls . |
| 9 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
| 10 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
| 11 | Matey thought unkindly that Mrs Darrell rather liked the idea of becoming Lady Cochrane when Stair went to his last rest , which at the rate he was living might not be long . |
| 12 | But he strode to his third consecutive British Open Amputee Championship at Bryn Meadows , South Wales , netting a new course record into the bargain . |