Example sentences of "to his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bede 's reckoning from 642 for the accession of Oswiu would suggest to him the year 664 , but if Oswiu did not succeed until 643 the reference to his twenty-second year would point to 665 as the year of the council . |
| 2 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 3 | At an age when most men are window shopping for zimmer frames , Ron Marsh is looking forward to his 41st year of rugby with Old Dartfordians after making his debut in December 1951 . |
| 4 | David Sieff asked us all to join in drinking Robin 's health , to which Robin replied in two sentences welcoming everyone and saying he hoped we would all come to his 100th birthday party ! |
| 5 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 6 | At all events Boon struck 11 resonant fours in reaching his half-century and Briers 15 boundaries before surrendering to his 186th ball , at 120 . |
| 7 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 8 | In a prefatory note to his first novel he told his readers , ‘ Except the hero and heroine , and those points of the work which supply the slight plot of it , as a novel the work itself is materially true , especially in the narrative of sea-adventure , most of which did ( to the best of our recollection ) occur to the author . ’ |
| 9 | Lewis was then run out needlessly when failing to react to Emburey 's call for a third run , and Paul Jarvis was lbw to his first ball . |
| 10 | Lewis was then run out needlessly when failing to react to Emburey 's call for a third run , and Paul Jarvis was lbw to his first ball . |
| 11 | Tomba is clearly looking forward to his first race in Italy since winning a gold and a silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Albertville last year , to add to two golds he took in 1988 . |
| 12 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 13 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 14 | But these days he 's devoting his time to his first love … music , and has been in the region to launch a series of unusual concerts . |
| 15 | Is he nervous about the critical reaction to his first work of fiction ? |
| 16 | It was the positive response to his first efforts that persuaded him to publish another Mahler facsimile . |
| 17 | He was sent to his first school there . |
| 18 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
| 19 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 20 | He arrived in Edinburgh that evening and was ferried by the organizer to his first reading at the university . |
| 21 | In this , his value always exceeds Boswell 's ; Johnson the writer has no need to grind the axe of his ego , and thereby feels no qualms in conveying how confusing he finds the native Scots , who , decisive and firm in their answer to his first question , are likely to contradict it entirely in answering the second question . |
| 22 | She looked at him wordlessly , unable to find an answer to his first question . |
| 23 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | ASTRATEGY for winning , but not winning friends , took Sugar Ray Leonard to the prize and to his first $100million from boxing . |
| 25 | Gregor Townsend : a step nearer to his first cap |
| 26 | All that and Benn has made the grand gesture of giving his new WBC belt to his first conqueror , Michael Watson , who is slowly recovering after the brain damage he suffered against Eubank last year . |
| 27 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 28 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 29 | Mr Deaves — said to have paid £300,000 alimony to his first wife , TV presenter Fran Morrison — lives with second wife Jacqui in a guest house in the grounds . |
| 30 | The Sun report on The Savage in my Bed about his first wife also makes it clear that Fairley was violent and sexually abusive to his first wife and , indeed , that this was a major factor in why she left him . |