Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 2 | He was a choirboy at St Paul 's Cathedral , where he had his first starring role , leading a processional , picked to do so , he believed , ‘ because I looked such a cherub ’ . |
| 3 | He did n't let it affect him for too long , although he put his second into the bunker at the 10th . |
| 4 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
| 5 | He has said that he wrote his second novel to say , ‘ Up you , Charlie ! ’ to those who had told him that getting out one book was easy . |
| 6 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 7 | The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 8 | It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard . |
| 9 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |
| 10 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 11 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 12 | It was after his move to the Italian manufacturer in 1974 that he enjoyed his first Grand Prix victory , at Jarama , in the Ferrari 312 . |
| 13 | He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife . |
| 14 | Celtic farmed him out to Blantyre Celtic to toughen him up and it was in the killing fields of Blantyre that he won his first honour , a Scottish Junior cap . |
| 15 | As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated . |
| 16 | Ruskin 's Fors Clavigera was probably Mackmurdo 's greatest single inspiration , and he modelled his first pamphlet , The Immorality of Lending for Payment of Interest or of any Usurious Gain ( 1878 ) , on Unto this Last ( 1862 ) . |
| 17 | In 1895 his article ‘ An Ideal Suburban House ’ , published in the Studio , exposed Scott 's talents to a wider audience and he received his first commissions from the mainland . |
| 18 | His father was a dealer and he learnt his first lesson at eight years old . |
| 19 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 20 | They were 18 feet away in two but then , said Mason , ‘ I forgot it was downhill ’ and he ran his first putt eight feet past the pin . |
| 21 | Tom came over eight days before the 1973 British Open started and he played his first two practice rounds with that great Australian golfer Bruce Crampton . |
| 22 | Given its regional network , 3i seemed a ‘ sensible ’ choice and he spent his first year in Leeds . |
| 23 | He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor . |
| 24 | He gradually withdrew from his duties at Newgate and he signed his last Ordinary 's Account on 30 April 1725 . |
| 25 | His international break-through came against France at Wigan in 1989 and he scored his first Test try in the return at Avig-non . |
| 26 | Alan Hill , the Basingstoke No 8 , is also enjoying a fine season and he scored his 22nd try of the campaign in the 16-6 victory over Havant in the final of the Hampshire Cup . |
| 27 | Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him . |
| 28 | Stewart was signed up to race Tyrell 's Formula Three Coopers and he won his first race at Snetterton . |
| 29 | I was good at eyeballing and so I said , ‘ A 5-iron ’ , and he hit his second shot right on to the green . |
| 30 | And he knows his next clanger will trigger yet another repeat showing — as well as threatening the first-team place he has worked so hard to hold down at table-topping Blackburn . |