Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] birthday " in BNC.

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1 OSCAR-winning actor Anthony Hopkins celebrates a knighthood along with his 55th birthday today .
2 She used to walk with two sticks , but fell down at her 90th birthday party when she stumbled over a low table and broke her hip again .
3 Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem and in January 1991 , when W. was coming up towards her fifteenth birthday , it was necessary to resort to in-patient treatment .
4 He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career .
5 Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army .
6 Dad had been improving daily — he was eating well , in good spirits and coming up to his eightieth birthday .
7 Mozart was then coming up to his eighteenth birthday , but already a mature master , and No 29 is both a great symphony and an enchantingly beautiful one .
8 I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’
9 For the six months leading up to my 40th birthday last April , I felt decidedly morbid .
10 The Headmaster had decided that he would retire when he had completed 21 years at the School ; the Chairman of Governors had recently celebrated his 80th birthday , and was considering his future commitments ; the Bursar had also decided to retire : it seemed that there would be a new team at the top to take the School on from its 475th birthday .
11 Adisa 's will be back for her first birthday in March .
12 Adisa 's will be back for her first birthday in March .
13 IRENE Aldis , who lost her wedding ring in 1932 , got it back for her 102nd birthday after it was found in a field at Honingham , Norfolk .
14 In this case she went back to her third birthday .
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