Example sentences of "and [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 5 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 6 | He learned the moves of the game at four years old , and made his first competitive appearance in Vienna two years later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then they issued a correction — and admitted his second name really is James . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |
| 16 | He plonked it on and got his first four . |
| 17 | Jim struck just before half-time for his first goal , and got his second three minutes from the finish . |
| 18 | He looked up and caught his first glimpse of Celia through the beads . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sam is now seven , and received his First holy communion at this convent on the next day . |
| 23 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 24 | He made his League debut against Arsenal at Hillsborough in November 1991 and scored his first goal for the club in the third round FA Cup victory over Preston . |
| 25 | Remarkably , Fender was not naturally right-handed , and scored his first boyhood century as a left-hander . |
| 26 | The American cursed loudly again , then planted his feet more firmly and fired his second barrel — but still none of the seladang faltered . |
| 27 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 28 | He is now recovering at home in Barnard Castle after three operations and celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday . |
| 29 | The Bank 's founder , Andrew Drummond , was an established goldsmith who followed the lead of other West End goldsmiths into banking and opened his first ledger in September 1717 . |
| 30 | The only clues in the biographical sources which may give some positive result relative to the death date of Fahreddin Acemi arise from the statement in Taskopruzade 's article on him that Molla Ali Tins , visited him on his death-bed and heard his last wishes . |