Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurred when two successive nominations by President Reagan failed in 1987 : the first was rejected by the Senate for his extremely conservative views , the second withdrew his nomination when he admitted to having smoked ‘ pot ’ years earlier . |
| 2 | His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank . |
| 3 | Three had their convictions quashed by the Appeal Court earlier this year — the fourth had his appeal turned down and is still serving a life sentence . |
| 4 | It was clear by February that Frederick would allow no compromises ; he returned six prisoners to the city , five of whom were blinded , while the sixth had his nose cut off . |
| 5 | CANADIAN Lothaire Bluteau , star of the recent epic Black Robe , first made his mark in the superb satire Jesus Of Montreal . |
| 6 | While Samuel Beckett first made his acquaintance with Guinness in Mooney 's of Abbey Street during his Trinity days . |
| 7 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 8 | His earliest stage roles at Barnes and the Everyman in Hampstead in 1926 were in classic Russian plays but in 1928 , at the Little Theatre in London , he first made his name in the type of role which was to become his hallmark : that of the neurotic , greedy , sinister villain in A Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 10 | Mr Bresslaw , known for his 6ft 7in frame , first made his name in television 's Army Game . |
| 11 | Donald first made his appearance when he started playing and interacting with divers near a marine laboratory on the Isle of Man in 1972 . |
| 12 | This shows that when Churchill first asked his officials to brief him on the subject , R. G. Hawtrey replied that public works would indeed increase employment , provided they were linked to an expansion of credit . |
| 13 | When the thought of conquering England first entered his mind is unknown . |
| 14 | Then he saw — or rather heard , for the clip of their boot-studs on the flagstones was what first caught his attention — a file of boys in football kit making their way along a covered path linking the courtyard to the playing fields that lay behind the school buildings . |
| 15 | The poet never knew his grandfather , who ‘ had long been dead ’ when Edward first visited his father 's mother at Swindon in 1888 . |
| 16 | My master , who had found a similar one on the port side , first tried his cloak but then cursed as it went into the lake and he had to stop the hole with the heel of his boot . |
| 17 | He first tried his hand at Formula One racing in 1963 but without much success . |
| 18 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | Mr Clarke said that it was the children who first drew his attention . |
| 20 | The Times , in its obituary column , May 10th , 1880 , claims that Flaubert wrote a book called Bouvard et Peluchet , and that he ‘ at first adopted his father 's profession — that of surgeon ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ She was crazy , ’ he said of the last reneging fiancée when he first turned his attention to me . |
| 22 | The bride carried the roses ( ‘ I am worthy of you ’ ) mixed with white carnations ( ‘ pure love ’ according to some sources , ‘ disdain ’ according to others , so it is imperative to synchronise your sources ) , edged with myrtle ( more love — this stems from the Arabic tradition that Adam was expelled from Eden carrying a myrtle sprig plucked from the bower in which he first declared his love to Eve ) . |
| 23 | In the person of Master Humphrey , Dickens acknowledges in The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1840–1 ) that it was external objects , rather than people , that first captured his attention as a writer . |
| 24 | When Butler first began his campaign he was ignored by the British Darwinians , but by the 1890s Lamarckism was being taken seriously even in Darwin 's home country . |
| 25 | He was an attorney at law who , when he first began his practice , bragged , according to Gilbert 's Parochial History of Cornwall , ‘ that he would get an estate by the law one way or the other . |
| 26 | Sir Joseph Banks , the greatest naturalist of the age , founder of Kew Gardens and botanist-companion to Captain Cook , first developed his boyhood passion for natural history in East , West , and Wildmoor fens , which washed up to the foot of the Lincolnshire wolds , and so to the very gates of Revesby Abbey , the Banks 's family home . |
| 27 | Here he first developed his love for the sea , which influenced so much of his later life . |
| 28 | When I first heard his name , I said , just as you are going to say , ‘ But I thought he was a boy ? ’ |
| 29 | Baddiel first discovered his talent for humour when the school review he edited was banned and he met Newman , also 27 , when they were students at Cambridge . |
| 30 | The reaction of the midshipman who first observed his approach was predictable . |