Example sentences of "[subord] his [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former champion hurdler Beech Road is an interesting contender , as he reverts to fences after a disappointing season over the smaller obstacles , where his one success came in the ‘ Fighting Fifth ’ at Newcastle . |
| 2 | Mansell dominated the opening qualifying in his Canon-Williams-Renault for the tough 81-lap Adelaide street circuit race , where his 1986 title hopes were wrecked by a tyre blow-out . |
| 3 | A third , small , anoraked figure approached the sergeant from behind where his two captives were kicking their legs like the rear end of a pantomime horse on speed . |
| 4 | He finished with a birdie two on the notoriously difficult 18th where his three wood tee shot finished a mere two feet from the pin . |
| 5 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 6 | Mr a forty four year old restaurant owner is still unable to sleep although his four year old son appears unaffected by what happened . |
| 7 | Mr Miah , a forty four year old restaurant owner , is still unable to sleep , although his four year old son Amsa appears unaffected by what happened . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to see from Salmon 's publications why more orthodox contemporaries saw atheistical or extreme heretical ideas in them , although his four pamphlets , which were read widely in radical religious circles , were really a highly personal attempt to articulate a nearly inexpressible sense of union with the divine . |
| 9 | Although his two sons had hated each other , they would not have dared move openly against one another while their powerful father was still alive . |
| 10 | We know no more than his two letters tell us . |
| 11 | He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents . |
| 12 | He looks tired and cold , younger than his twelve years . |
| 13 | Tao Chu , in contrast , seemed younger than his eight years and wore his heart embroidered like a peacock on his sleeve . |
| 14 | Here , an impressive local candidate , Coun. Bill Wade , bucked the trend against the Liberal Democrats ; he collected a thousand more votes than his 1987 Alliance counterpart . |
| 15 | The weight his stepfather had put on the young man 's shoulders had made David seem much older than his twenty-eight years . |
| 16 | A natty dresser who looks much younger than his 57 years , he is everything that Americans ask for in Japanese politicians : charismatic , decisive , articulate , a natural leader . |
| 17 | Its eventual success acted as a springboard for the union boss , who looks much younger than his 56 years . |
| 18 | Grey-faced and grim , he is looking older than his 55 years . |
| 19 | Even in long trousers and polished shoes and a brand-new bomber jacket , he looked much younger than his nine years . |
| 20 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 21 | HE 'S 5ft 3in tall , looks older than his 48 years , and is nobody 's idea of a film star . |
| 22 | Dusty Hare , true , played as well for England as he did for his club , and deserved to win even more than his 25 caps . |
| 23 | Far more cool , calm and level-headed than his 22 years should allow , he is one of the new breed : intent on restoring a live , funkier and altogether more sincere approach to modern dance music . |
| 24 | Peter Roebuck might not have looked 13 in 1969 , but then he could well be taken for less than his 36 years now . |
| 25 | All praise , too , for the inclusion of Cortot 's fire-eating performance of the Twelfth Prelude , a less muted experience than his 1942 account . |
| 26 | As I said before , Klemperer 's conducting invariably fuelled controversy , and I can not imagine a more controversial performance than his 1968 recording of Mahler 's Seventh Symphony , which comes in a boxed set with the appropriate coupling of Klemperer 's own Second Symphony and his Seventh String Quartet , the latter performed by the Philharmonia Quartet ( ) . |
| 27 | Then Julius got slowly to his feet , looking very much older than his thirty-six years . |
| 28 | Far more dramatic than his 1625 Cavendish monument at Edensor , here he has Denham resembling a semi-nude Donne , for the top-knotted winding-sheet has lost its pins and slipped off the body as his reinvigorated corpse steps out of a coffin , his left hand raised as if to shield his eyes from the brilliance of the Second Coming . |
| 29 | The famous Protestant clans of Mulhouse relied on one another : André Koechlin , son-in-law of the Dollfus who founded Dollfus-Mieg ( both he and his father had married into the Miegs ) , took over the firm until his four brothers-in-law were old enough to manage it , while his uncle Nicholas ran the Koechlin family firm ‘ with which he associated exclusive ] y his brothers and brothers-in-law as well as his old father ’ . |
| 30 | He waited until his two attackers — each to be paid £1,000 , with £500 expenses — disappeared in the dark before climbing to safety . |