Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |
| 2 | Forever talking about an important matter which he would discuss on his next leave . |
| 3 | Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series . |
| 4 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 5 | Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ? |
| 6 | I thought : what did he see as his last sight on earth ? |
| 7 | A squadron commander would suggest to me that " old so-and-so is getting a bit teased-out and perhaps he should be rested " , or " it might be convenient if he did not return after his next leave " — these leaves were quite frequent , something like six or seven days every six or seven weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ In his last will and testament , the celebrated philosopher , author of Pythagorean Mysticism and the Ninfanian School , left his entire estate , the noble house at Punta del Giorno , the farms and their sheep folds in the hills at Crotone , Metaponto and Matera , the vineyards that fringe the banks of the Sauro gorge , to none other than himself , when he should return in his next incarnation to take up residence on his territories again . |
| 9 | McMenemy added : ‘ As I understand it Graham said that in an ideal world the longer the lay-off the more games you would hope a player would have before his next England appearance . |
| 10 | He claims to have absolutely no inkling of what will happen on his next page , or what will happen at the end of a novel . |
| 11 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 12 | When he did leave for his next promotion , the ‘ real polises ’ reading his c.v . |
| 13 | You know , I thought he was about fifty odd , but what I must mention Jane , must n't forget in his first race in the three o'clock , he came last on Ruddy Cheek . |
| 14 | Francis initially wants Wegerle on a month 's loan but if he is successful it could lead to his third £1million move . |
| 15 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 16 | David Sieff asked us all to join in drinking Robin 's health , to which Robin replied in two sentences welcoming everyone and saying he hoped we would all come to his 100th birthday party ! |
| 17 | To get to the end of my story first , let me point to his last winter 's feat of equally Laurie O'Hara 's O55 Wimbledon cross-country record . |
| 18 | During the Great War Daniels had proposed that the Headmaster should retire on his sixtieth birthday ( and his assistants on their 50th ! ) , and with this in mind he tendered his resignation in July 1928 : he would be sixty in December . |
| 19 | From an early age , Shah Jehan made it clear that he did not care for his third son , and instead increasingly lavished attention on the more amiable Dara Shukoh . |
| 20 | He was gone before we could reply to his last remark . |
| 21 | His mother says he would never own to his second name , which was that of a friend of Herbert 's living in London . |