Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the President promised to use his second term for a new " crusade " to secure peace and prosperity within the USA , he offered few new prescriptions for the ailing economy , preferring instead to concentrate on a broad agenda which included less government and lower taxes . |
| 2 | Moses was 40 when he tried to strike his first blow for freedom ( 2:11–12 ) , which ended in disaster . |
| 3 | ( When Leonard came to write his second novel , he paid MacLennan the finest compliment of all — and the riskiest — by imitating his theme , as we shall see . ) |
| 4 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |
| 5 | It was evident from the young man 's circumspect excitement that he thought he 'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac . |
| 6 | He 'd passed his last medical , otherwise he would n't have been on board . |
| 7 | After a switch to real race machinery , Bradl soon became known as a daring , go-for-broke rider and by 1987 he 'd taken his first European championship win and second overall in the series . |
| 8 | Boadicea raised her goblet , the hero flashed past , he 'd survived his first real bumpy ride . |
| 9 | I said , actually , I 'd ordered his first I said , but I thought I 'd treat you . |
| 10 | As a kid , Rush 's first love was Everton — yet when he paid to watch his first League game it was , fittingly , Spurs v Liverpool at White Hart Lane . |
| 11 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 12 | So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan . |
| 13 | In 1895 he began to build his first full-size glider , the Bat ; it had pronounced dihedral , and was fitted with a rudder but no tailplane . |
| 14 | BEFORE THE END of his mammoth production Birds of Europe and his Monograph of Toucans ever came into view , Gould began planning his next major project . |
| 15 | Having changed this stage in the argument to his liking , Dwight Kronweiser began contemplating his next deathless paragraph , and gazed fixedly ahead of him as polysyllabic concepts moved through his mind like heavy artillery on parade . |
| 16 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 17 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 18 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 19 | When he decided to reform his first and misguided collecting habits , Barnes looked up both of them for advice . |
| 20 | Having recently completed a company first aid course , P&O Distribution Warehouseman , Terry Phillips , decided to run his first marathon to raise money for the St John Ambulance Service . |
| 21 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 22 | When Amy Moyle , the wife of Josias Clarke , died in 1631 her husband decided to petrify his last memory of her by having cut a supine effigy , which showed his wife in her shroud . |
| 23 | Breaks of 106 , 68 and 55 put him 4–0 ahead before Murphy managed to claim his first frame . |
| 24 | I think it was Christy we were playing with and he kept landing his second shots close . |
| 25 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 26 | However , Oliver managed to draw his first breath , and then announced his arrival to the rest of the workhouse by crying loudly . |
| 27 | Despite pressure from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , Mr Kaifu managed to keep his first two cabinets free of politicians who had been implicated in either the Recruit scandal or the earlier Lockheed bribery case . |
| 28 | He commenced to read his last recantation , urging his listeners to fear God and obey the King and Queen . |
| 29 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 30 | Both men had cars capable of winning the world title but that honour went to the Argentinian , while Moss had to be content with the runner-up position although he did record his first Grand Prix victory at Aintree in 1955 . |