Example sentences of "been his [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the tributes marking what would have been his fiftieth birthday , and as Paul Woodley now reports from New York , friends of the singer gathered at the United Nations to play the song as an anthem of peace . |
| 2 | In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting . |
| 3 | Stewards said Charlie 's penalty would have been harsher had it not been his first race . |
| 4 | Lord Aldington denied it had been his first thought : ‘ Silence is the right word . ’ |
| 5 | By all accounts , or at least by his wife 's , that had not been his first concern . |
| 6 | He , whose picture Skaller now held in his hand , he had been his first love , his first love and his first passion ! |
| 7 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 8 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first refers to his presence under 994 , but this may not have been his first visit . |
| 9 | This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor . |
| 10 | In returning here he came full circle , back to the room which had been his first glimpse of the Fifth Dominion . |
| 11 | But it is also reminiscent of Cobham Park ( Fig. 12b ) , which had been his first glimpse as a child of the distant houses of the great . |
| 12 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 13 | As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style |
| 14 | Jimmy Nichol is the manager of Raith Rovers but that could have been his last match in charge as he is one of the favorites for the Northern Ireland match |
| 15 | The Glen would have been his hundredth race , but Cevert was tragically killed in practice and Ken withdrew his Tyrrells . |