Example sentences of "[prep] his [num ord] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow he takes in a further round of 125cc British championship at Donington Park and after his ninth spot in the Supercup at a wet Oulton last weekend he 'll be one of the leading contenders . |
| 2 | Wilkinson was accused of being a ‘ cheat ’ by Bristol goalkeeper Brian Parkin after his first goal in an exciting second-half comeback . |
| 3 | Dick Hansen poses alongside his Kittyhawk immediately after his first solo in her . |
| 4 | I reproduce here this surely heroic airman garlanded after his 2,000th flight in a Taube , the reverse of the picture is inscribed ‘ Mein 2,000 flug auf Hansa-Taube in Hamburg 1913 ’ ( A ) . |
| 5 | NEWCASTLE 'S Gavin Peacock is on course for his best goalscoring season after his 11th goal in 20 games killed off WATFORD in a 2–0 victory . |
| 6 | GAVIN PEACOCK is on course for his best goalscoring season after his 11th goal in 20 games killed off Watford . |
| 7 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 8 | Things have not gone right this year for the colt dubbed a new ‘ Champion the Wonder Horse ’ after his last-to-first victory in the Breeders ' Cup Juve-nile 10 months ago . |
| 9 | By then he was forty-two years old , he was tired of the strains of FI racing , his kids were grown up and beginning to race themselves , his business interests ( and , by now , his reputation ) were all in the USA and , as he said phlegmatically at Las Vegas after his last race in FI , ‘ I just do n't see any reason to continue any more . |
| 10 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 11 | ‘ I love these type of games , ’ said the 26-year-old Kelly , after his eighth goal in Keegan 's fifteen matches . |
| 12 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 13 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 14 | Not until the beginning of his second administration in 1973 was Nixon able to announce the end of the Vietnam War . |
| 15 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 16 | ‘ On the first stage of his first rally in an Astra he was 19 seconds faster than anyone else . |
| 17 | GRAEME SOUNESS was one week short of his first anniversary in charge of Liverpool when the stresses and strains of football management took their heavy toll . |
| 18 | The words drew on his memory of a secret meeting he had gone to at the end of his first year in Glasgow . |
| 19 | It was a sweet way for Crosby to celebrate the end of his first year in the Sunderland hot seat . |
| 20 | Venezuelans elected Mr Perez in 1988 with fond memories of his first presidency in the 1970s , a golden era to which he promised a return . |
| 21 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 22 | Before he can set out the book reaches a savage climax as a night bivouac comes under heavy bombardment with rockets and mortars : the violence , noise and confusion are captured , as is the terrifying helplessness which contrasts with the circumstances of his first wound in action during an armoured charge under gunfire . |
| 23 | Graham Chapman , who died on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of his first appearance in the show which made his reputation , travelled along ( and to a certain extent pioneered ) that now orthodox route to celebrity . |
| 24 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
| 25 | It also suggested that he would be permitted to remain as leader until the completion of his first term in October 1991 , and would possibly achieve a second two-year term . |
| 26 | By the time of his first visit in 1779 , there had been a county gaol in the town for over two centuries but although the building he visited was only thirty-three years old he was very critical of the facilities it provided . |
| 27 | Three putts took him back to par , continuing the story of his first round in which he hit 16 greens in regulation but missed seven putts inside 8ft . |
| 28 | It became more difficult with the birth of his first son in 1990 . |
| 29 | But the 150th anniversary of Mozart 's death in 1941 brought only eulogies of the standard old-fashioned kind ( as well as some Nazi-inspired pan-Germanic accretions ) , and Mozart was still on his ornamental pedestal for the commemoration of his 200th birthday in 1956 . |
| 30 | It was the beginning of his sixth day in Little Weirwold . |