Example sentences of "[v-ing] to his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 2 | Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank . |
| 3 | Phil Gelderd praised the list in glowing terms before going to his first Leeds game for years — sadly for him he picked the recent one against Norwich . |
| 4 | She had worshipped Hendry as she watched him on TV marching to his second Embassy world title last April and made nightly notes in her diary detailing her adulation . |
| 5 | At all events Boon struck 11 resonant fours in reaching his half-century and Briers 15 boundaries before surrendering to his 186th ball , at 120 . |
| 6 | White Face was presumably trusting to his second compartment , ‘ the part that never hatched ’ , to see him along his course . |