Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] his [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 2 | Moses was 40 when he tried to strike his first blow for freedom ( 2:11–12 ) , which ended in disaster . |
| 3 | ( When Leonard came to write his second novel , he paid MacLennan the finest compliment of all — and the riskiest — by imitating his theme , as we shall see . ) |
| 4 | As a kid , Rush 's first love was Everton — yet when he paid to watch his first League game it was , fittingly , Spurs v Liverpool at White Hart Lane . |
| 5 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 6 | So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan . |
| 7 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 8 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 9 | Having recently completed a company first aid course , P&O Distribution Warehouseman , Terry Phillips , decided to run his first marathon to raise money for the St John Ambulance Service . |
| 10 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 11 | When Amy Moyle , the wife of Josias Clarke , died in 1631 her husband decided to petrify his last memory of her by having cut a supine effigy , which showed his wife in her shroud . |
| 12 | Breaks of 106 , 68 and 55 put him 4–0 ahead before Murphy managed to claim his first frame . |
| 13 | However , Oliver managed to draw his first breath , and then announced his arrival to the rest of the workhouse by crying loudly . |
| 14 | He commenced to read his last recantation , urging his listeners to fear God and obey the King and Queen . |
| 15 | The outcome was a humiliation for Walesa when , on June 28 , members voted to override his second attempt to block the legislation . |
| 16 | Six hours from the start , in a wide lush valley , Fusil had placed his first checkpoint . |
| 17 | The senator paused to light his first Havana of the day and as he got it going he studied the matted vegetation of the riverbank through its smoke . |
| 18 | The prosecution had claimed that the furniture factory boss resolved to kill his second wife Helen when she walked out on him . |
| 19 | By the time he had completed his forty-second plate he was forced to face up to his inadequacies as a business man . |
| 20 | Cantona 's eventual finish , a delightful turn and shot to claim his first goal for United , was a peach . |
| 21 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 22 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 23 | Harvey said how much he had enjoyed his last visit to Riga , and how sorry he was that he would n't be going there , and the man at the other end said that Leningrad was one of the most wonderful towns in the world . |
| 24 | After a massive public row which began when he thought his wife had forgotten his 49th birthday , the forlorn star said : ‘ I have made up my mind , the marriage is over . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Knight , who was a county councillor for Harwich for 12 years , said he was very upset at the latest snub but did not want to comment further until he had considered his next move . |
| 26 | Of these the most important was Hartley , after whom he had named his first son . |
| 27 | Eleanor 's husband had secured his first lectureship , and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles . |
| 28 | He had seen his first Rottweiler in the UK whilst visiting a police dog training centre and he was greatly impressed with his working ability . |
| 29 | By the time it was all over , Norman had done his first mix , a poppy version of Eric B and Rakim 's ‘ I Know You Got Soul ’ which sampled The Jackson Five 's ‘ ABC ’ with a typical lack of concern for cool . |
| 30 | When I spoke to his assistant she told he had said his last word on the subject and did not want to hear of it again . |