Example sentences of "of his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they must progress without brilliant fly-half Naas Botha , who announced his retirement at the end of his 28th Test . |
| 2 | He died 10 years later , on 20 June 1828 , in nearby Wellington Street — just two days short of his twenty-ninth wedding anniversary , and a mere two weeks after the death of his pauper uncle , John Titford , in Frome . |
| 3 | Fittipaldi was two months short of his 24th birthday at the time . |
| 4 | ( This so-called ‘ Janissary ’ style , which Beethoven was to use to such startling effect in the finale of his Ninth Symphony , had already crept into Mozart 's music , in the Rondo alla turca and the ‘ Turkish ’ episode in the finale of the Violin Concerto in A major . ) |
| 5 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 6 | But the England committee fear Gooch 's domestic upheaval could be a more damaging distraction in India to his pursuit of his 100th Test cap and 100th first-class century . |
| 7 | He was a few weeks short of his fiftieth birthday , a somewhat elderly junior minister . |
| 8 | For the final ballot each voter must indicate two preferences amongst the three candidates by placing the figure I opposite the name of his preferred candidate and the figure 2 opposite the name of his second choice . |
| 9 | That is not his style , emphasised Mr Moran on the second day of his second spell as Anfield caretaker manager . |
| 10 | Josiah sailed to America in 1683 and Benjamin was born there 23 years later , the seventh child of his second wife . |
| 11 | Now that we have in print the diary of his second wife , and his correspondence with Dame Margaret , Lloyd George 's private morality can be viewed in historical terms . |
| 12 | In about 1744 , shortly after the death of his second wife , Hoare dammed the Stour to create the lake in the gardens and called upon Henry Flitcroft [ q.v. ] to design the temples around it . |
| 13 | During these years Lambarde , after the death of his second wife , spent quite a lot of his time in London , and it was the fashionable thing in London for men of rank and members of Inns of Court to visit the Shakespearean theatre , while the plays were also performed in the Grays Inn Hall , before crowded audiences of Benchers , Lawyers and friends . |
| 14 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 15 | Trying to get rid of his second run so that he can get home by eleven . |
| 16 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 17 | It was unpleasantly snide about the circumstances of his second marriage . |
| 18 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 19 | Their attempts to acquire Bigorre and Comminges were effectively blocked by the counts of Foix , but Bernard VI of Armagnac 's inheritance of the town and comté of Rodez in 1304 ( as a result of his second marriage to Cécile , daughter of Henri , count of Rodez ) was a valuable acquisition . |
| 20 | Well , according to the late Mrs Howard , we got this much from her at least , there is some doubt about the validity of his second marriage . |
| 21 | But if she were still alive at the time of his second marriage , nearly twenty years later , then it was bigamous . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 24 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 25 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 26 | In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph at the end of his second year as Archbishop , Dr George Carey said the next 12 months would be difficult for the Church as it focused on the ordination of women to the priesthood . |
| 27 | On the night of his second child Kate 's birth , Andrew was on stage 12 miles from the hospital in the comedy Noises Off . |
| 28 | First there is the prospect of his second nose-to-nose with Brian Moore . |
| 29 | Over the past months , he had completed about three chapters of his second novel . |
| 30 | It also seems unfair that the Report should appear to place Scott as an equal with Banks and Barry , because of his second place on the unofficial War Department lists . |