Example sentences of "his [num ord] [noun sg] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Scott , Marshall was seventeen times lawfully married , and after his hundredth year was the avowed father of four illegitimate children . |
| 2 | His second goal was the highlight of the afternoon — the single-minded determination to score almost as impressive as the execution which saw him hold off Paul Parker and Alan McDonald and allow the ball to run past him before spinning and shooting across David Seaman , from right to left . |
| 3 | His second novel is The Man Who Was Late ( Macmillan ) . |
| 4 | His second wife was a volatile Lebanese dancer . |
| 5 | According to the Memoir he was twice married , and his second wife was the widow Curran . |
| 6 | His second marriage is a marriage of conformity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her birthday present to her husband on his 82nd birthday was a BMW car covered in red roses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His first feature was The Great Rock And Roll Swindle , the story of the Sex Pistols . |
| 11 | ‘ His first race was a bumper at Ayr and he won at 33-1 . |
| 12 | His first love was the theatre and , as a young man , he plagued local companies for small parts . |
| 13 | His first half was a pearl — even Drillo said that . |
| 14 | His first tunnel was the Butterley tunnel , 1.74 miles long , on the Cromford canal . |
| 15 | His first patient was a woman in agony with a slipped disc . |
| 16 | His first destination was the headquarters of the ANC in Lusaka ( Zambia ) , where he met the exiled ANC executive committee , and other leaders of the Frontline states and Commonwealth representatives , and was greeted with the ceremony normally reserved for heads of state . |
| 17 | His first disappointment was the lack of a porter to carry his bags . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His first reaction was the standard , old-style Soviet one : disappear , set the jaw , do n't say anything in public . |
| 20 | It was typical of Edward Crumwallis that , even at this stage , his first reaction was an instinctive determination to cover up . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His first car was a 1964 Ford Consul which he and three friends bought for £15 , plus an additional £5 for petrol . |
| 23 | The intention was to continue his career in the USA , and he was shipped to California , where , trained by Tommy Woodcock , his first target was the Agua Caliente Handicap , originally billed as the world 's richest horse race and run just over the Mexican border in Tanforan , out of reach of California 's restrictive betting legislation . |
| 24 | His first group was a vocal duo with brother Edgar , very much in the Everly Brothers tradition . |
| 25 | His first game was the 1-0 victory over Israel which earned qualification for the '82 World Cup in Spain , to date the highlight of Derek 's international career . |
| 26 | His first game was the 1–0 victory over Israel which earned qualification for the '82 World Cup in Spain , to date the highlight of Derek 's international career . |
| 27 | His first victim was a student — cornorered in public toilets in St. Giles . |
| 28 | Almost his first action was a post-election dawn raid in July 1983 on departmental budgets . |
| 29 | His last illness was the most violent , and his doctors were astounded that he survived it . |
| 30 | His last hotel was the Blue Bell at Belford in Northumberland . |