Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 2 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 3 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My new mother-in-law , Martha , has worked long and hard for many months to prepare this wonderful occasion , all the little details such as these beautiful flower/cake decorations were planned by her , and my father-in-law has taken on his second mortgage without complaint , like the good-natured man he is . |
| 6 | She had first had her suspicions years before when he had sent her a photograph taken on his twenty-first birthday . |
| 7 | The midseason was disappointing , but by the end of July , in Holland and a fortnight later in Germany , Jackie had notched up his fourth and fifth victories of the season and a second place in Austria put him well in the lead . |