Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 2 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 3 | His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal , edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke . |
| 4 | A letter explained that it was the pictures Simon had owned before his second marriage and which by rights belonged now to his daughter . |
| 5 | Merulo , as one would expect of such a prolific instrumental composer , included in his second book of motets ( 1593 ) 7 per concerti e per cantare , and after his death were published two remarkable Masses , on Giaches de Wert 's madrigal ‘ Cara la vita mia ’ for two choirs and on Andrea Gabrieli 's ‘ Benedicam Dominum ’ itself a three-choir work — for three . |
| 6 | Robinson died in February 1680 and was succeeded by his second son John ( born 1660 ) . |
| 7 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 8 | Reagan 's capacity to learn from past mistakes and to make the adjustments necessary to achieve at least part of his declared purpose can be seen in his second term and in the passage of welfare reform legislation . |
| 9 | Trying to get rid of his second run so that he can get home by eleven . |
| 10 | His heir , Muhammad Reza , was born to his second wife , queen Taj ol Molok , on 20 October 1919 . |
| 11 | The relationship between father and son was always strained and the child insisted on having himself called by his second name , Lawrence , from quite an early age . |
| 12 | At the first extra hole Torrance and Woosnam both hit the green in two but Rystrom missed the green and Broadhurst was bunkered with his second shot . |
| 13 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 14 | He continued in that post under her four successors , assisted by his second wife as a lady of the household , declaring his belief in Anne 's adultery and in 1539 threatening to disinherit his son for failing in attentions to Thomas Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | Fortified by his second election victory Adenauer adhered to his policies , which continued to pay dividends . |
| 16 | After his death the Estate , including the hotel passed to his second cousin , Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 17 | Faced with his second mutiny in barely a day Jones agreed , though insisting his men must not search or damage the house but merely demand the family silver . |
| 18 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 19 | It was obvious that he would love to have had a family , and this has been amply confirmed by his second wife . |
| 20 | He is survived by his second wife , Jenny , and by a son and daughter from his first marriage . |
| 21 | Asimov is survived by his second wife , Janet , and by two children from his first marriage . |
| 22 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 23 | He was survived by his second wife , Hannah , and two sons . |
| 24 | His own estates lay mainly in Northamptonshire , but his marriage to the Scales heiress had brought him a group of manors in East Anglia , a regional connection maintained by his second marriage , to Mary Fitzlewis . |
| 25 | His own estates lay mainly in Northamptonshire , but his marriage to the Scales heiress had brought him a group of manors in East Anglia , a regional connection maintained by his second marriage , to Mary Fitzlewis . |
| 26 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
| 27 | 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 . |