Example sentences of "his [num ord] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 2 | Midge had lost an elder brother , killed by a shell on his nineteenth birthday in the Second World War . |
| 3 | Ian took over in 1974 and will soon be celebrating his 90th programme in the chair . |
| 4 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 5 | At Headingley , David Gower , thirty-three years old , became the youngest player to reach one hundred Test matches — or , as Don Mosey put it on the radio , he reached his hundredth Test in fewer games than anyone else . |
| 6 | His second goal in this game , and his seventh in Spurs ' last four , was scored six minutes into the second half . |
| 7 | SEPT 5 : Allegations — unproven — that he made gestures to the Wimbledon crowd after scoring his second goal in Arsenal 's 3-2 defeat . |
| 8 | JOE ALLON , Brentford 's new signing from Chelsea , struck his second goal in four days to put the Brentford top of Group B of the Anglo-Italian Cup . |
| 9 | Clarke got his second goal in the 60th minute when he met a well directed right-wing cross from Wallace to first time the ball past Maguire to secure both points for the visitors . |
| 10 | Les Robinson getting his second goal in as many matches … |
| 11 | Les Robinson getting his second goal in as many matches … |
| 12 | Consistently lauded by his manager , Liam Brady , the 22-year-old central defender 's winner was his second goal in two matches . |
| 13 | United took the lead in the 25th minute , Norwegian international Jostein Flo grabbing his second goal in four days since his £400,000 move . |
| 14 | Consistently lauded by his manager , Liam Brady , the 22-year-old central defender 's winner was his second goal in two matches . |
| 15 | Michael O'Neill drilled home a second for the visitors before Dunne restored Saints ' hopes on the half-hour mark with his second goal in successive games . |
| 16 | Doubts about Mr Vargas ' taste were also raised by the sight of near-naked women dancing to celebrate his second anniversary in politics . |
| 17 | A couple of years round the reps playing nervous idiots , then a television series , and now , entering his second year in Virgin on the Ridiculous , nauseating the critics and wowing the coach parties . |
| 18 | John , enjoying only his second year in the sport , had some troubles in the 250cc class with his BSA in the wet conditions on Saturday and retired it after only two laps in the first race . |
| 19 | However , the type of cynicism greeting the arrival of Haines , who was officially introduced to the media yesterday on his second day in office , smacks very much of a ‘ Pavlov 's dogs ’ response which assumes every move the Club makes is anachronistic and autocratic and therefore automatically to be shot down in flames . |
| 20 | This was his second century in seven days but the game was won by five wickets at Bishop . |
| 21 | The 21-year-old was recording his second century in three seasons . |
| 22 | Midfield player Leon Bell of the Stoke High school gets his second cap in midfield after making his international debut in the win over Wales ten days ago . |
| 23 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 24 | ANDREW Morton , author of the best-seller , Diana : Her True Story won his second award in a week at the What the Papers Say Awards lunch when he was named investigator of the year for his delving into the Royal Family which led to his best-selling book Diana : Her True Story . |
| 25 | His change in lifestyle perhaps owed something to his second marriage in 1863 ( his first wife had died in 1860 ) to Mrs Job Lees ( née Sarah Mayall , unrelated ) , from the ranks of the local élite . |
| 26 | My grandfather , George Hey ( 1854–1916 ) , worked in a Thurlstone cloth mill as a dresser or finisher when he was a young man , but on the occasion of his second marriage in 1900 he gave his occupation as waggoner . |
| 27 | But his second title in three years came in 1977 when , after an intensely close battle in the first half of the season with South African Jody Scheckter and American Mario Andretti , Lauda pulled clear to win the title with 17 points to spare . |
| 28 | Pontypridd 's main concern is the fitness of outside-half Neil Jenkins , who turned out for his club in a home friendly against Penarth on Tuesday — only his second game in seven weeks because of an ankle injury . |
| 29 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
| 30 | He misses his second game in succession when Instonians are the visitors tomorrow at Stevenson Park . |