Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 2 | Striker Bull looks for his 200th goal . |
| 3 | WHAT next for Mike Morris , TV-am 's genial co-host , who tomorrow morning presides over his last breakfast show ? |
| 4 | Graham looks at his third can of beer thoughtfully . |
| 5 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 6 | Dai Qing shocked the audience by declaring : ‘ I do n't care what Binyang says about his second kind of loyalty ; even the third , fourth or fifth kind of loyalty wo n't save China ’ . |
| 7 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 8 | They encroached upon him very early , leading to imaginative experiences very like those wild and rumbustious scenes he describes in his first novel . |
| 9 | For example , one of Freud 's patients , who invented the term ‘ omnipotence of thought ’ , which Freud uses in his third paper in Totem and Taboo , used to think that if he thought of someone he would then always meet them , or if asked how someone was , he would hear that they had died . |
| 10 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 11 | JASON Dozzell prepares for his 400th Ipswich Town game at Manchester City tomorrow saying : ‘ We all need to step it up ten per cent . ’ |
| 12 | As the Solihull stalwart prepares for his 16th consecutive Davis Cup appearance , JOHN OAKLEY reports on Britain 's most loyal player . |
| 13 | Jacob reveals by his first words to Esau that he belongs still to the world of their stiff courtesy , and not yet to that of his brother 's gay abandon . |
| 14 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 15 | Jimi gets through his third Fender before lunch |
| 16 | HENRY ROLLINS ( left ) embarks on his first major spoken word tour early next year , in conjunction with the release of a double album of wry wisdom from the former Black Flag frontman . |
| 17 | Portadown-based Crowe , a close season signing by Bangor , embarks on his third successive European mission wiser in more ways than one from the Antwerp experience . |
| 18 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 19 | The first programme consists of his first commissioned ballet , Danses Concertantes , the early whimsical Solitaire , and the powerful Las Hermanas made originally for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1963 , remounted for SWRB in 1976 and not seen at the Wells since 1984 . |
| 20 | NIGEL MANSELL may be about to give Formula One a much-needed lift when he competes in his first Indycar race at the street circuit of Surfers ' Paradise in Queensland , Australia , on Sunday . |
| 21 | More significant still , Cnut 's crown in the New Minster drawing is a lily crown , very similar to that which appears on his first Quatrefoil coin type , but with an additional arched bar spanning its centre . |
| 22 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 23 | Joe Lydon 's impressive form at full-back , combined with an ability to play anywhere in the three-quarters , sees him make his third tour , while the man for whom he has deputised in recent weeks , Steve Hampson , goes on his first tour . |
| 24 | But the student who goes to his first lecture without any idea at all of what he is to face is working quite inefficiently . |
| 25 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 26 | Peter tells in his first apistle in chapter one , in verse twenty three , for you have been born again , not of seed which is perishable , but imperishable , that is through the living and abiding word of God . |
| 27 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 28 | Mallet 's third factor , job security , follows from his first two points . |
| 29 | Skipper poses with his first ever rosette . |
| 30 | It is dizzying to think how much a baby learns in his first couple of years . |