Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's significant that you sit here in this house , so comfortably , calling my father by his first name while I have n't seen him since I was eight . ’ |
| 2 | The Sun report on The Savage in my Bed about his first wife also makes it clear that Fairley was violent and sexually abusive to his first wife and , indeed , that this was a major factor in why she left him . |
| 3 | Born in Markinch , Bob Craig loves St Andrews and its University as his second home . |
| 4 | Obviously their kiss had been a mistake and a fiasco from the start , and her own wariness about her naïve feelings for him had rung warning bells in her mind since his first mention of a ‘ private nursing job ’ . |
| 5 | Her birthday present to her husband on his 82nd birthday was a BMW car covered in red roses . |
| 6 | This came out so comically that they both began to laugh together , Neil putting his book down , and McAllister whooping into the apron which she had thrown over her head at his last sally , as though she were truly the skivvy she pretended to be . |
| 7 | In taking this first step to rational choice , the single imperative which imposes itself is none other than ‘ Face facts ’ , which has exerted its authority from his first recognition of the obstinate resistance of external circumstance to his desires . |
| 8 | In this , his value always exceeds Boswell 's ; Johnson the writer has no need to grind the axe of his ego , and thereby feels no qualms in conveying how confusing he finds the native Scots , who , decisive and firm in their answer to his first question , are likely to contradict it entirely in answering the second question . |
| 9 | ‘ in his interaction with his first subject , he is emitting a myriad of unprogrammed and unintended cues in the visual and auditory channels . |
| 10 | ‘ But all of it , ’ the Dean says firmly , checking his watch for his next appointment , ‘ all of it is to the glory of God . |
| 11 | But 19-year-old Smith has already jumped far higher than Grant this year , including 2.33 for his club in his first competitive outing two weeks ago . |
| 12 | ‘ Woe is me that Edward 's kinsmen , plucked from his side during his first moments of kingship , lie now in the dungeons of Pontefract ! ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , in 1973 he told Bertie Whiting , a close friend and best man at his wedding to his third and last wife Eletha , ‘ I 'm not going to live long . ’ |
| 14 | The House will know that he changed his allegation between his first and third questions . |
| 15 | The courts had set the sum he should pay for his child by his first marriage at seventeen pounds fifty . |
| 16 | Even as he did so , Angel One was already shifting his weight onto his left foot , in preparation for his counter-attack on his second assailant . |
| 17 | He was Agent in Castlebar , 1941–1946 and he served as Agent in Navan from 26th June 1946 , when he was appointed on a salary of £640 per annum , until his retirement on his 65th birthday , 1st February 1952 . |
| 18 | Gooch made sixty five , Graham Hicks boost boosted his confidence with his second international fifty and England reached their target with ten overs to spare . |
| 19 | No give but his mark on his last test gave him the final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 20 | But the England committee fear Gooch 's domestic upheaval could be a more damaging distraction in India to his pursuit of his 100th Test cap and 100th first-class century . |
| 21 | He 's a writer and a historian , and he 's growing his hair half-way down his back for his next one-man show . |
| 22 | His education was placed in the hands of a series of military tutors , and before the pathetic little boy was seven he had been appointed the youngest corporal in the Prussian Army and made to congratulate his father on his thirtieth birthday in full uniform . |
| 23 | The Blankety Blank star , who married the ex-barmaid 17 years his junior after his first wife Meg died from cancer , recorded the interview for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair just a week before he died of a heart attack in June . |
| 24 | Pop fans will note that Albini has been fulsome in his praise for his next project , Polly Harvey . |
| 25 | He told us how Christ had intervened in his life at his first visit to Caux . |
| 26 | Although he gradually lost his sight in his last decade , Ridolfi continued to write . |
| 27 | His daughter by his first marriage , Isabel , 38 , and his brother , Teddy , 64 , are environmentalists . |
| 28 | Marjory , his daughter by his first wife , was persuaded to agree that if the king died without a son the crown should pass to his brother Edward ; but to be on the safe side a marriage was arranged between Marjory and Walter , the hereditary High Steward , who in spite of his youth had distinguished himself at Bannockburn and become one of Bruce 's most trusted lieutenants . |
| 29 | His only surviving issue at the time of his death was Joan , his daughter by his first wife , who was the wife of Eon la Zouche . |
| 30 | His daughter by his first wife , and only child , married into the Hulton family of Lancashire , which accounts for the survival of his papers in the County Record Office at Preston and in the British Library . |