Example sentences of "his [num ord] [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In 1917 , his second marriage was to Jessica Gertrude ( daughter of Richard Gerrard , civil engineer ) , actress and former wife of Eric Spencer Wentworth Fitzwilliam ( later ninth Earl Fitzwilliam ) .
2 An FA spokesman said : ‘ A player dismissed for two bookable offences receives a one-match ban , unless his second offence is for violent conduct . ’
3 His second shot was in the rough on the left , but a long way down and then he chips stone-dead .
4 His first position was with the old Edinburgh Corporation as a trainee valuer and he has been with Lothian Regional Council since reorganisation in 1975 .
5 His first position was as a Trainee Programmer in Systems Technical Development working for Peter Davie .
6 His first ascent was in a hot air balloon , of the Montgolfier type , in October 1784 and his last was made in 1816 .
7 His first marriage was to Frances Boure .
8 His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine .
9 Back to the National , for this week there can be no getting away from it , his first memory is of watching Red Rum 's first triumph .
10 His first race is at Brands Hatch on Easter weekend and then its off to Knockhill for round one of the British Championship …
11 His first race was at Oulton Park in 1962 when he was behind the wheel of a Porsche .
12 His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them .
13 Not for the first time Matey noted that his first thought was of his maid .
14 Is it within your power to draw the Prime Minister 's attention to the fact that his first responsibility is to the House of Commons , that there is a Prime Minister 's Question Time every Tuesday and Thursday and that we have a Foreign Secretary and a Secretary of State for Defence who are quite able to deal with international and defence commitments overseas ?
15 His first concern was for the children .
16 GORDON Edwards ( Bromborough ) , who never seems to lose his form with the passing of years , won the English Open Seniors Championship for the second time his first success was in 1988 .
17 He went there in 1958 and his first posting was to a remote rural station in the north of the country .
18 His first posting was to Abu Dhabi , where he recalls routinely testing wells with 20,000 barrels a day production capacity — by burning the production !
19 His first introduction was to Princess Margaret .
20 His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ .
21 His first cure was at Yalding in the Medway valley , where he succeeded the radical printing preacher John Strowd .
22 His first ambition was to be a pilot or flight engineer .
23 ( His first design was for a vehicle propelled by legs ) .
24 His first action was on 22 December 1944 when he led a band of 34 against a French outpost ( one is reminded of Aung San and his Thirty Comrades ) .
25 Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine .
26 His first job was as a cloth-cutter and sewing machinist in a factory .
27 After winning the Enfield by-election in 1984 , his first job was in the whip 's office , followed by a stint as junior health minister .
28 When he joined the UKAEA in 1956 his first job was in accounts , followed by a short period in commercial .
29 His last romance was with former tennis ace Sue Barker , but it ended in 1988 after three years .
30 He said he would be considering his future with his family over the weekend and would possibly be returning to business — his last position was as chief executive of Ridgway 's Tea .
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