Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Its success gave Hardy the confidence to revive the manuscript of A Pair of Blue Eyes , put aside after the failure of Desperate Remedies , and embark on his first attempt at a serial , the form in which many 19th century novels originally appeared . |
| 2 | and waiting for his next one to come |
| 3 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 4 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 5 | Angel tools around London in a black cab , getting into scrapes and surviving by his first rule of life : ‘ It 's better to be lucky than good ’ . |
| 6 | He also won four full England caps and netted on his first two appearances . |
| 7 | He could not wait to see it all back safely in England and to start on his next publication . |
| 8 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 9 | He was now in India , and judging by his last letter he appeared to be enjoying life out there . |
| 10 | Raymond Floyd , now in his 50th year and playing in his 28th consecutive Masters , was mainly concerned with the greens . |
| 11 | It was a pity that he was not left with his aircraft , as he was put on standby as soon as we arrived at Takali , and killed on his first operation in Malta … ’ |
| 12 | He paid and left for his first call at a dealer 's house in the Place du Bourg-de-Four . |
| 13 | He taught her brother how to roll a cigarette , and she remembered him doubling up with delighted laughter as the boy coughed and spluttered on his first smoke . |
| 14 | Also at this event the Champion of Oulton series continues with Graham Riley of Rochdale out to prove that he can stay on top of the contest and improve on his third place last year . |
| 15 | Paul completed the 54 mile London to Brighton race last year and qualified for his first 100km Track Race which took place in Nottingham . |
| 16 | He renewed his passport in August 1939 , and travelled with his second wife to Berlin , where ( not without difficulty ) he pursued Josef Goebbels 's propaganda ministry to employ him as an editor and announcer for radio broadcasts in English . |