Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will suit as much as them to have the fight later because it will give John that little bit more time to prepare after having his jaw broken in his last fight . ’ |
| 2 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
| 3 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As the Solihull stalwart prepares for his 16th consecutive Davis Cup appearance , JOHN OAKLEY reports on Britain 's most loyal player . |
| 6 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 7 | However , he says that Mr. Owen , thereupon , ‘ gravely , but very tenderly rebuked my pride , and gave me for my theme : ‘ Ne sutor ultra crepidam ’ ’ ( ‘ Let the cobbler stick to his last ’ ) . |
| 8 | Surrey needed 421 to win in a minimum of 120 overs — but the Dutch paceman struck with his fourth ball . |
| 9 | Surrey needed 421 to win in a minimum of 120 overs — but the Dutch paceman struck with his fourth ball . |
| 10 | That 's how long it took the 18-year-old to score with his first touch on his Roker Park debut . |
| 11 | The instrument which Holly used on his last tour is on display in a music museum in Texas . |
| 12 | Newfield took over top spot in the premier division after beating Lobster 1-0 with substitute Dino Farrag scoring with his first touch after 76 minutes . |
| 13 | THE teenager charged in the murder of a German tourist sobbed at his first court appearance last night as police staked out several Miami sites searching for his girlfriend and suspected accomplice . |
| 14 | He says he will have time enough to relax and carouse when he 's had a smash hit with his first novel . |
| 15 | The author presiding at his last meeting as chairman of the Arts Council in 1972 . |
| 16 | Campbell cracked his first ever senior hat-trick after England ace Wright set the ball rolling with his 62nd strike in just 87 games for the Gunners . |
| 17 | His head cleared at his second , where he thrashed two drivers on to the green , while he went to two under for the day at his fifth , the short 14th , where he hit a seven-iron to 7ft . |
| 18 | Racing : Little Polvier poised for his third National victory . |
| 19 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 20 | He claims not to remember anything of his ‘ death ’ , but various events in the death story recur in his second life : he confuses the five moon-children he fathers with his real children , and he speaks of people as though they were cosmic bodies . |
| 21 | I hope that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will seize the opportunity provided by his next meeting with his Community colleagues — which I believe will take place very shortly — to reappraise the position , and to see whether the Governments of the Community could now decide to recognise Croatia and to tell the Yugoslavian federal Government that they can no longer be recognised as the legitimate Government of former federal territory . |
| 22 | WHAT next for Mike Morris , TV-am 's genial co-host , who tomorrow morning presides over his last breakfast show ? |
| 23 | Townsend at least gave fans something to shout about with his well taken goal in the 86th minute when Dennis Wise cleverly controlled a Gareth Hall centre for his captain to fire in his fourth goal of the season . |
| 24 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 25 | Alan 's father died during his first year at Breakspear , leaving him a very wealthy young man . |
| 26 | It is dizzying to think how much a baby learns in his first couple of years . |
| 27 | In a long and controversial career in football which included spells with West Bromwich Albion , Vancouver Whitecaps and Birmingham City , Johnson 's career ended in his 39th year at Hearts . |
| 28 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 29 | Although the exhibition covers all periods of Nicholson 's career and includes such historic material as ‘ Crowned head : the Queen ’ ( 1932 , Abbot Hall Art Gallery ) , ‘ Coin and Musical Instruments ’ ( 1933 , Richard Zeisler collection ) , and ‘ April 1950 : Still-life Abelard and Eloise ’ ( Musee des Beaux-Arts , Ottawa ) , it is particularly strong in the larger , later works which the artist created during his second and longer residency in Switzerland ( 1958–71 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |