Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 2 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |
| 3 | He concentrates his energies on survival and focuses his hope on the second addition to his life since my departure : a son , now quite as tall as his father and doing well at school . |
| 4 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 5 | Jovic formally withdrew his resignation at the next meeting of the Federal Presidency on March 21 . |
| 6 | He had dictated his resignation to the first secretary he encountered . |
| 7 | Only his progress to the second round of Wimbledon last year proved more lucrative . |
| 8 | His repeats in the first movements may seem more generous than convincing ( in the B flat minor the composer 's imperiously thrusting argument is surely weakened by backtracking ) yet , again , Andsnes provides a distinctive clarity and a healthy antidote to other more superficially alluring or volatile readings . |
| 9 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 10 | Peter Blake , the skipper of Steinlager 2 , has pinned his course to the 50th Parallel , doubtless in an effort to avoid the icebergs ; Dalton seems willing to take greater risks . |
| 11 | How had Hubert let Elfael and Brycheiniog slip through his fingers in the first place ? |
| 12 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 13 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 14 | Little Rock had forced the Eisenhower administration to act and in the same year , 1957 , the President had put his support behind the first Civil Rights Act passed for over 80 years . |
| 15 | As far as I am aware , there was good feeling between the candidates during the election , and I was somewhat surprised to read in Susan Crosland 's splendid biography of her husband that Roy Hattersley had told him I was angry that he was standing , and that he must give me his support before the first ballot or I would have no interest in him . |
| 16 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 17 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 18 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 19 | He took his text from the First Book of Samuel : |
| 20 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 21 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 22 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 23 | Mr Kostikov said the president would announce his plans in the next few days . |
| 24 | The appellant was anxious for the matter to be dealt with in the magistrates ' court , but his accomplice elected to be tried in the Crown Court , but changed his plea at the last minute . |
| 25 | And there is Gregory 's account of Guntram warning Childebert over the behaviour of Egidius , which is placed immediately before his description of the last days of Gundovald . |
| 26 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 27 | For example , if his company has unwelcome suitors who want to take over , or his activities in the Third World are threatening home sales . |
| 28 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 29 | David Stirk 's apparent penchant for extra holes proved his undoing in the second round against the Waughs of Walton Heath . |
| 30 | His writing-room on the first floor contains an unprepossessing table and a sideboard , on which sit his word-processor and printer . |