Example sentences of "[vb past] his [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maudsley modified his 1867 comments and in 1895 argued that masturbation was a product of a particular form of insanity , due to the processes of adolescence . |
| 2 | César Gavira Trujillo , 43 , who had held office as Finance Minister and Interior Minister under the current President , Virgilio Barco Vargas , and who had taken over the election campaign of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmineto after the latter 's assassination on Aug. 18 , 1989 [ see p. 36844 ] , received an estimated 60 per cent of the vote and comfortably defeated his five rivals . |
| 3 | One top dealer and team leader invited his four team members out to a wine bar one evening . |
| 4 | He described his 1924 film Reveille , an episodic account of how a group of humble people had been affected by the war , as ‘ a scrapbook of pictures of life caught in the living , no hero , no villain , no plot , no tying up of loose threads . ’ |
| 5 | He declared that his large diamond rings were his investment ; they probably were as after his ‘ crash ’ some disappeared but he still maintained his two houses . |
| 6 | Even though the winds were not as strong lower down , Duncan maintained his 41,000 feet altitude so as to save fuel . |
| 7 | The soldier from the Dishforth-based Army Air Corps had stopped at the station to ask directions but on the way out of the car park he crashed his four ton truck into a wall knocking it down . |
| 8 | The death of Albert Lewis inevitably involved his two sons in practical decisions . |
| 9 | For a decade and a half Bramwell served the movement faithfully but as he approached his seventies speculation began to grow about who was to follow him . |
| 10 | Geoffrey de Geneville outlived his two sons , Geoffrey and Peter , and died in 1314 , far from his native Champagne and full of years , at the Dominican priory of Trim , to which he had retired in 1308 . |
| 11 | The voice that is always compared to the young Sinatra , and always comes out better in the comparison stayed mostly out of the limelight as Harry let his sixteen piece band do the talking . |
| 12 | As part of his campaign against the transmutationists , Richard Owen used his 1841 survey of British fossil reptiles to argue against the idea of continuous development . |
| 13 | In the library , Montgomery regarded his two sergeants keenly . |
| 14 | Tufnell deserved his two wickets , England 's only successes on yet another gruelling day . |
| 15 | Jim , seated , or perched on his chair , could not settle , but got up and stumbled about , laughing helplessly , or sat and laid his head on the table and laughed , sounding as if he wept , then in an excess of happiness and gratitude , banged his two fists on either side of his head , which banging turned into a little sharp jubilant rhythm . |
| 16 | Aldred narrowed the gap with his second penalty before Watson scored his two tries , both from close range . |
| 17 | Liberal Party leader David Steel told his 1981 conference to ‘ go back to your constituencies and prepare for government ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It has been a hell of a year for me , ’ said Faldo , whose Pounds 348,000 cheque lifted his 1992 winnings to a record £1.5 million . |
| 19 | Well after they went round the corner one of these erm well stupid young lads in the back er lifted his two fingers on the pickets . |
| 20 | But Edison identified his two sides by ‘ L ’ and ‘ R ’ , presumably for ‘ Left ’ and ‘ Right ’ ; clearly they were being regarded as very short fat cylinders ! |
| 21 | When Wilfrid received his 87 hides of land at Selsey , part of the package was 250 male and female slaves , whom he converted and set free . |
| 22 | Alan Calver ( left ) received his 40 years service award at the Annual Stoddard Templeton Salesforce Conference from Chief Executive , Ralph Ellis . |
| 23 | The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives . |
| 24 | Below us is the spot where King Lir 's second wife , a witch naturally , turned his two daughters into swans . |
| 25 | Often whole families of brothers and sisters worked on the dressing floors — in 1845 William High joined his three brothers . |
| 26 | But the phone WAS cut off — and although it was reconnected , Mr Bedi claimed his five days without a line cost him £5,000 . |
| 27 | William paid his five guineas to the Abney Park Cemetery Company , Ltd. , in exchange for ‘ exclusive right in perpetuity ’ of burial in a plot of ground 6′ 6″ by 2′ 6″ — no. 62,076 , square L9 . |
| 28 | Bertram paid his 50 pence and entered the park . |
| 29 | He scrambled to his feet , hesitated for a moment , then clasped his 7 ft 3 in Excalibur to his bosom . |
| 30 | He lived in a converted cowshed and was exercised by his owner , who raced his three horses simply for the fun of it . |