Example sentences of "from his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his first sip of welfare orange juice , he was cut out to be a professional Glaswegian . |
| 2 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 3 | And young Gareth Davies was a whisker away from his first goal . |
| 4 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 5 | Townsend oozed confidence from his first kick to touch , and he agreed after the match that being part of the Scottish squad had done much to sharpen his game . |
| 6 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 7 | From his first venture as Kings Road boutique owner in the 1960s , he started the fashion chain Warehouse , launched the stylish mail-order catalogue Bymail , and went on to present the extremely successful Clothes Show programme on TV . |
| 8 | Having offended officers by omitting Jacques Soustelle , the most well-known Gaullist advocate of French Algeria , from his first government , de Gaulle appeased them by bringing Soustelle into the government in July . |
| 9 | From his first home with Mary in Canonmills he would take their mongrel dog , Penny , to the nearest open space which was a coalyard , a spur off an old railway . |
| 10 | from his first soliloquy ( l.ii. ) to his last ( V.i . ) , |
| 11 | They are a genuine substitute for the talk and shared companionship that was missing from his first year at Oxford . |
| 12 | After occupying junior ministerial office from his first year in Parliament , he became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1955 . |
| 13 | Mimed dance and danced mime However , the strict division of a ballet into four distinct kinds was eliminated by Fokine when he totally cut the scène d'action from his first ballets and never replaced them . |
| 14 | Having learned from his first assignment that the general effectively controlled the hostage situation in Beirut , Coleman now came to realize that , in a broader frame but in the same sense , Kenaan also controlled the nature and scope of narco-terrorism itself — ; or , at any rate , could do so when it suited President Assad 's purpose . |
| 15 | He is survived by his second wife , Jenny , and by a son and daughter from his first marriage . |
| 16 | Asimov is survived by his second wife , Janet , and by two children from his first marriage . |
| 17 | The split comes just days after Freddie was reunited with his ‘ lost ’ son Carl , 26 , from his first marriage . |
| 18 | Last night , Spiro 's daughters from his first marriage , who live in London , pleaded with him to surrender . |
| 19 | He does n't want any more children at the moment — he has a 22-year-old son from his first marriage and an eight-year-old daughter from his second — and she is prepared to wait . |
| 20 | Christy , 34 , Sonny 's daughter from his first marriage , invited her superstar stepmum to launch her Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica , Los Angeles . |
| 21 | He works in the rights department of a small publishing company and has two children from his first marriage . |
| 22 | There were two sons and two daughters from his first marriage , and one son from his second . |
| 23 | He had one daughter from his first marriage . |
| 24 | It would be unwise , therefore , to say anything to him of what he had learned about Ipuky 's sons from his first marriage , or about the other visitor to the City of Dreams . |
| 25 | Keith 's 11-year-old son from his first marriage could n't wait either . |
| 26 | Last night PC Robinson — who remarried 10 months ago and has a daughter from his first marriage — was described as in a critical but stable condition in Newcastle Upon Tyne general hospital , which specialises in head injury cases . |
| 27 | One reason given for Cruise 's divorce from his first wife , 39-year-old actress Mimi Rogers , in January 1990 , was their inability to have children . |
| 28 | She was so very different from his first wife , foully murdered during the old Cold War years in Estonia on the Baltic . |
| 29 | Certainly they have quotations from his first wife , which suggested that ‘ Britain 's most notorious sex fiend … was ‘ useless in bed ’ ’ . |
| 30 | Intimate details about the relationship are supplemented by information from his first wife 's 63-year-old mother , who is also named and photographed . |