Example sentences of "his [num ord] [noun sg] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His second wife was a volatile Lebanese dancer . |
| 2 | His second marriage is a marriage of conformity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her birthday present to her husband on his 82nd birthday was a BMW car covered in red roses . |
| 5 | As the hon. Gentleman is well aware , his first question is a matter for my hon. Friend the Minister of State and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State who have , no doubt , listened to him carefully . |
| 6 | ‘ His first race was a bumper at Ayr and he won at 33-1 . |
| 7 | His first half was a pearl — even Drillo said that . |
| 8 | His first patient was a woman in agony with a slipped disc . |
| 9 | His first sale is a deliberately mixed bag affair of mainly Belgian provenance , including eighteenth-to nineteenth-century objets d'art , tapestries , tribal art and furniture with a number of Belgian items sent up from Paris and one hundred pieces of Far Eastern porcelain from a Belgian collection . |
| 10 | Dunne would have been forgotten — except , perhaps , by fly-fishermen ; for his first book was a beginners ’ guide to the art of the dry fly — if An Experiment with Time ( 1927 ) had not enjoyed an immediate and lasting success . |
| 11 | His first car was a 1964 Ford Consul which he and three friends bought for £15 , plus an additional £5 for petrol . |
| 12 | His first group was a vocal duo with brother Edgar , very much in the Everly Brothers tradition . |
| 13 | His first victim was a student — cornorered in public toilets in St. Giles . |
| 14 | Almost his first action was a post-election dawn raid in July 1983 on departmental budgets . |
| 15 | But his last work was a collection of endearingly blurred photographs and awful verses entitled Bernard Shaw 's Rhyming Guide to Ayot St Lawrence . |
| 16 | His third publication was a proposal for a phonetic alphabet in which related sounds were denoted by related symbols ; this appeared in the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions ( 1686 ) . |
| 17 | His third shot was a wild slice , whistling just past Mother 's left ear , splashing into the river . |
| 18 | His next film is a ‘ character mystery ’ — not a musical — about Weegee , the famous news photographer of the Depression years , named for his ability to arrive at the scene of a crime with a speed which suggested the use of an ouija board . |
| 19 | His next project is a film — Sam and the Sergeant — which will start shooting in September in exotic locations such as Switzerland and Los Angeles as well as the south east of England . |
| 20 | Nicholson 's interest in writing was re-awakened by his scriptwriting assistance on The Terror , and his next project was a screenplay in which he was encouraged by Roger Corman , who thought it was a good idea because though he personally felt Nicholson showed great potential as an actor , others around him did not always agree . |