Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travis queried , and , for the first time in an age , he smiled as he tacked on , ‘ Now that you mention it , I seem to remember now reading something about Massingham 's taking over Vasey 's , but Naylor 's always got his finger in some negotiation , so the Vasey deal would have gone out of my head while I read about his next business venture . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been out on the West Coast where everything 's mellow and laid-back , ’ says Julian , when I ask for his first impressions of NYC . |
| 3 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | The relationship between father and son was always strained and the child insisted on having himself called by his second name , Lawrence , from quite an early age . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | POLICE were yesterday still waiting to interview a man who was badly burnt in a fire which swept through his first floor flat in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 8 | Skipper , Derek Hall got them going with his first ever goal for the club , so no wonder he went on a victory run . |
| 9 | Scottish rider Niall Mackenzie retired after five laps when his Yamaha developed engine trouble , and mechanical problems also forced out Londoner Peter Graves , who qualified for his first grand prix , and Irishman Eddie Laycock . |
| 10 | But the student who goes to his first lecture without any idea at all of what he is to face is working quite inefficiently . |
| 11 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 12 | Leicester seemed out of it but remarkably seconds before the break Lee Philpott crossed from the left and found stand-in striker Steve Walsh who headed in his 7th goal in as many games since moving up front . |
| 13 | Hirst , who scored in his second appearance on the 1991 tour of Australasia , has not played for the senior side since that Wembley game . |
| 14 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 15 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 16 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 17 | But two minutes into injury time their defence got into a tangle after a Logrones throw and let the ball run through to Agustin Abadia , who thumped in his second goal of the day to level the scores . |
| 18 | There was the Honble Freddie Moore , leaning forward eagerly , his turn to speak to her ( it could not be about that ; it must not be ) , ‘ is it true that George Edwardes is after you , and means you to star in his next … . |
| 19 | Midfielder who impressed in his first year at Elland Road making several reserve outings and being rewarded with a professional contract . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 21 | ‘ Come down to the river and do some fishing with me , ’ she suggested after his third afternoon of idle silence . |
| 22 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 23 | As such he is a natural verse-speaker , as we see from his first appearance ( I.ii.321ff. ) and from the soliloquy cursing Prospero during the storm ( II.ii.1–17 ) . |
| 24 | He glared at her over his beer , daring her to agree with his last assertion . |
| 25 | They reported in-depth information about his sex life that they gleaned from his first and current wives , their mothers , neighbours and any other informant . |
| 26 | Gascoigne took it , John Barnes flicked on at the near post and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 27 | A Paul Gascoigne corner in the 13th minute was flicked on at the near post by John Barnes and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 28 | To get to the end of my story first , let me point to his last winter 's feat of equally Laurie O'Hara 's O55 Wimbledon cross-country record . |
| 29 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 30 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |