Example sentences of "and [verb] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After retiring from Oxford in 1964 , he settled in Israel and divided his last years between New York , where he was visiting professor at Queens ' College in City University and Stern College , and Jerusalem . |
| 2 | The Profitboss avoids frequent business lunches , trying hard to find two or three days a week when he can escape from his office at lunch-time , take a stroll , sit on a park bench and eat an apple , drink some mineral water and contemplate his next profit-making move . |
| 3 | Liverpool 's third choice keeper is set to jump queue ahead of David James and make his first appearance of the season in the absence of the suspended Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 4 | Liverpool 's third choice keeper is set to jump queue ahead of David James and make his first appearance of the season in the absence of the suspended Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 5 | Bruno then gave his view on the other two big heavyweight clashes coming up : ‘ Bowe is a very good boxer , strong , young and very confident and seeing his last fight I fancy him against Holyfield . |
| 6 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 9 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 10 | He learned the moves of the game at four years old , and made his first competitive appearance in Vienna two years later . |
| 11 | Harry was a little diffident to begin with , but he soon settled down and made his first appearance for Palace at outside-right when he came into the side for season 1922–23 on 30 September at Leicester . |
| 12 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 13 | When Aimar v , Viscount of Limoges , suspected that his wife and his uncle Archambaud of Comborn were having an affair he went to war against his uncle and made his first attack without warning . |
| 14 | How dispiriting for Father Watson to tell her this , Nenna thought , and how far it must be from his expectations when he received his first two minor orders , and made his last acts of resignation . |
| 15 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 16 | Then they issued a correction — and admitted his second name really is James . |
| 17 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 18 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 19 | George moved to Liverpool and produced his first documented work , a wax portrait relief of Henry Blundell [ q.v. ] of Ince , the connoisseur and sculpture collector . |
| 20 | Cash bonuses come the way of the super seasiders whom Byrne plays 15 first team matches and wins his first full cap . |
| 21 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |
| 22 | He plonked it on and got his first four . |
| 23 | Jim struck just before half-time for his first goal , and got his second three minutes from the finish . |
| 24 | He looked up and caught his first glimpse of Celia through the beads . |
| 25 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 26 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 27 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 28 | STEPHEN HENDRY displayed a regal touch to dismiss a determined challenge by local favourite , Ken Doherty , 9–6 and capture his seventh title of the season at the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters in Goff 's , County Kildare , last night . |
| 29 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 30 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |