Example sentences of "on his [num ord] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the type of cynicism greeting the arrival of Haines , who was officially introduced to the media yesterday on his second day in office , smacks very much of a ‘ Pavlov 's dogs ’ response which assumes every move the Club makes is anachronistic and autocratic and therefore automatically to be shot down in flames . |
| 2 | On his 65th birthday in October , Malcolm Macdonald was presented with a Music Centre from his colleagues on his retiral , after 24 years ' service . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | SIR EDWARD Maufe , the architect of Kelling Hall , died on his ninety-first birthday in 1974 . |
| 5 | John was born on 14 February 1926 and joined the Sennen Cove lifeboat crew ashore as a ‘ runner ’ on his thirteenth birthday in 1939 . |
| 6 | Arsenal hold the Maceeter trophy but were watched at Wolves last week by Vengloss , keen to impress on his first test in English football . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ |
| 8 | on his first assignment in his first week out there . |
| 9 | On his first day in charge , he sold Andy Ritchie to Motherwell . |
| 10 | For example , on his first appearance in the 2nd Division for us , against Blackpool at The Nest on 22 October 1921 , he hit the single goal that gave a weakened Palace side victory , he got another one the following week in an excellent 3–1 win at Blackpool which was our first away from home in the higher division , then returned to Selhurst the next Saturday and headed the goal that disposed of Clapton Orient in a rugged London derby . |
| 11 | Midge had lost an elder brother , killed by a shell on his nineteenth birthday in the Second World War . |
| 12 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 13 | Taylor , 47 , was taken ill last week while working on his third album in a Florida recording studio . |
| 14 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 15 | Starting work in the drawing office of the Bristol Aeroplane Company on his 21st birthday in 1925 , the Author retired 44 years later as the Managing Director of the British Aircraft Corporation at Filton . |
| 16 | On his last day in New Zealand , in his valedictory address to the press corps , Irish manager Noel Murphy announced that ‘ when I get back to Dublin I will be speaking to the members of the IRFU involved in coaching , like former Irish coaches Syd Millar , Ronnie Dawson and Tom Kiernan , with our director of rugby , George Spotswood , with the various provincial coaches and with the coaches involved here in New Zealand , Ciaran Fitzgerald and Gerry Murphy . |
| 17 | For the 39-year-old Englishman , on his last appearance in Formula One before joining the Indy Car circuit , it was a sad farewell . |
| 18 | Erlich had been on his last months in Washington when he had read the lesson , digested it , that safe folks crossed the road from danger , and did n't mind who they turned their backs on . |
| 19 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 20 | He became laird of the Kinloch estate on his twenty-first birthday in 1796 . |