Example sentences of "of his [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuathal had crossed the Earn and was on this side , strung out with what remained of his hundred horsemen . |
| 2 | He struggled to remember the sad old man , picture him as a part of his half-forgot-ten childhood . |
| 3 | What was established beyond doubt was that Phar Lap , winner of thirty-seven of his fifty-one races , was one of the finest racehorses ever . |
| 4 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 5 | He fixes us with his glazed brown eyes and tells how five of his 10 children have died . |
| 6 | Having overtaken Clive 's score , he declared knowing that if he lost his wicket in the remaining two of his 10 overs he would have 10 runs deducted . |
| 7 | I believe Madeley played in different positions in each of his four Wembley Finals . |
| 8 | After the tragic murder of Harry Masterson in The Greek Key crisis , Tweed had shuffled some of his four sector chiefs . |
| 9 | He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught . |
| 10 | Lester , who failed to win any of his four races , and Duffield — who won the coveted Yorkshire Oaks — later flew back to Newmarket … in the same plane . |
| 11 | Robin Francis ( York ) made a clean sweep of his four races to win the award for the top ten-year-old boy at the Gateshead open meet . |
| 12 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |
| 13 | Old Mr Jacobson emigrated to the Cape in 1880 after a quarrel with his wife , taking with him two of his four sons and all but one of his seven daughters . |
| 14 | Matt Williams seized on some poor Cubs pitching to drive in four of the Giants runs and Will Clark lifting his series batting average to .625 when he reached base on three of his four at-bats . |
| 15 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 16 | In 1986 , Sir Ranulph made the first of his four attempts with Dr Michael Stroud to reach the North Pole unsupported . |
| 17 | Although Laurie led the first day of the 1957 Open jointly with Eric Brown and Flory Van Donck , he was to finish out of the top twenty , Bobby Locke taking the last of his four Championship titles . |
| 18 | In 1880 Queen Victoria had been on the throne for forty-three years ; Gladstone began the second of his four terms as Prime Minister ; Great Britain was at the zenith of its powers . |
| 19 | A guardian would be assessed on the stock he was holding on behalf of his wards , as was Francis Brown of Little Casterton , Rutland , in respect of his four brothers and sisters . |
| 20 | At the top R.B. receives all applications in which one of his four fields feature in the combination . |
| 21 | In December it was arranged , without his knowledge , that Mr M would lose two of his four days ' teaching in the outer isles at the end of the academic year . |
| 22 | Following the first of his four goals in the 10th minute , Lyon raced on to skipper Shane Cooper 's long pass from the base of the scrum to put Kiwi Test centre Jarrod McCracken over for the opening try in the 22nd minute . |
| 23 | Hooley 's gilded years came to an abrupt end in June 1898 , when he himself filed a petition for the first and most sensational of his four bankruptcies . |
| 24 | That weekend had been more strained than usual because Frances Shand Kydd — Earl Spencer 's former wife , and mother of his four children — was for the first time under the same roof as Raine . |
| 25 | Castle , who was attending Buckingham Palace with his wife Fiona and two of his four children , said the OBE for services to charity was ‘ marvellous — it 's what it says : the Old Boy 's Ego ’ . |
| 26 | In Victoria mid-week , the President 's XV , with Graf kicking three of his four penalties , had moved into a 14–3 lead before two errors , a missed tackle mid-field and then a missed touch kick allowed Swansea to turn the tide with tries by wing Simon Davies and centre Scott Gibbs . |
| 27 | Oxford 's past reveals that , in 1894 , C B Fry , a future England cricketer and then the world long jump record-holder , was prevented by injury from gaining a rugby Blue in the same season as winning the third of his four soccer Blues . |
| 28 | Female jurors wept after hearing of his 1983 convictions for three rapes . |
| 29 | Marlin 's record collection was chiefly seduction songs of his sixties adolescence , which suited her fine . |
| 30 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to end his two-year retirement . |