Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His opportunity came in 1096 . |
| 2 | The decline began again in 1954 : 7.8 per cent at the time of Suez in 1956 ; 6.3 per cent at the end of National Service in 1962 ; 5.4 per cent when Denis Healey completed his Defence Reviews in 1968 ; and 4.9 per cent in 1970 , when the withdrawal from East of Suez was nearing completion . |
| 3 | As the race wore on , West stretched his advantage to win in 1 hr 49 mins 43 secs , two minutes ahead of last year 's champion , Michael Bumpstead . |
| 4 | A second later he lay dead on the far side of the hedge , his neck snapped in two , with his young rider lying prostrate in the grass beside him . |
| 5 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 6 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 7 | David Stirling 's final plan was for his force to embark in five Bristol Bombay aircraft of 216 Squadron on the night of 16 November and drop near their targets . |
| 8 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 9 | His work culminated in six papers published between 1847 and 1853 in the Annual Reports of the Royal Institution of Cornwall . |
| 10 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 11 | There are radical implications in these challenges , and Marshal Ogarkov 's departure in 1984 , as well as his return to favour in 1985 , may not be unrelated to his keen awareness of them . |
| 12 | Michael Peck made 87 but then had his cheekbone broken in two places after being struck while fielding at silly point . |
| 13 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 14 | The high point of his campaign came in three lengthy and unscripted television interviews with a sympathetic journalist . |
| 15 | A picture of Jesse with his cart taken in 1932 outside the Black Boy shows him complete with white coat and advertising " Try our Home Made Ices " . |
| 16 | His editorship ended in 1880 following a change of ownership , but in 1877 Knowles had already founded a new magazine , the Nineteenth Century , which became even more influential , bringing Knowles again into the centre of contemporary thought and politics . |
| 17 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
| 18 | His wife died in 1639 and he was predeceased by a son and a daughter . |
| 19 | His wife died in 1912 . |
| 20 | After his wife died in 1789 , Emes moved to Hampshire and took a lease of Elvetham Park from Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe . |
| 21 | He and his wife live in one of Salisbury 's spacious homes . |
| 22 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 23 | But the real start to his career came in 1875 with an appointment as professor of geology and mining at the Imperial College of Engineering , Tokyo . |
| 24 | Despite his aspirations to poetry , he became better-known as a prose writer in his minutes and despatches as a statesman , for ‘ Owen Meredith ’ , better known to history as Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , first Earl of Lytton ( 1831–91 ) , became a distinguished diplomat , the climax of his career coming in 1876–80 when he served as Viceroy of India and in that capacity proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress at Delhi in 1877 . |
| 25 | His career climaxed in 1951 when he upset Sugar Ray Robinson by taking his world middleweight title after fifteen rounds at Earls Court . |
| 26 | The other reportedly had his skull fractured in 15 places , broken fingers and numerous stab wounds . |
| 27 | erm His father died in nineteen hundred and three and his mother in nineteen hundred and five and of course his mother 's death was a particularly shattering blow , and he actually spent six weeks in a clinic for neurotics . |
| 28 | After his father died in 1835 , leaving the business to him , he remained in Liverpool until 1841 , when he moved to Manchester and at the same time entered into partnership with another Liverpool optician under the name Abraham & Dancer . |
| 29 | When his father died in 1974 , Jochen became the Principal of the College , the administration of which he combines with his medical career . |
| 30 | His father died in 1913 , and the next year his maternal uncle , the 6th Earl Annesley , was killed in action in an aircraft over Ostend , Belgium . |