Example sentences of "[prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly two decades after his first solo album , and four years since his last , Cale has signed to the Opal company ( run by his old friend Brian Eno ) who have just released Words for the Dying , the bulk of which is Cale 's first extended classical work , The Falklands Suite . |
| 2 | The Sonata is imaginatively coupled with Britten 's , written after his first meeting with Shostakovich in 1961 . |
| 3 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 4 | Having been four-over par after his first three holes on Thursday , that was quite a recovery . |
| 5 | But after his first shot , Mr Smith will find it virtually impossible to raise much additional revenue from the better-off . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish I could stay out there until dark , ’ he said after his first round . |
| 7 | So besieged was he after his first round that he sought refuge for a while on the practice putting green . |
| 8 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 9 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 10 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 11 | A year after his first interview at Bloomsbury House , he was still saying that ‘ he really wanted some particular friend who would take a close interest in him ’ . |
| 12 | This success followed some ten years after his first stage appearance at the age of 19 months when he was pushed on stage by an enthusiastic aunt to dance . |
| 13 | ( Yet despite leaving his cell quite old and grey after his first five-year stint there , he seems to shed almost ten years within weeks . ) |
| 14 | The GP visited again 10 days after his first call and asked that I continue to review the wound regularly and alter the dressings as necessary . |
| 15 | Arjuna Ranatunga was ecstatic after his first win in 11 Tests since becoming captain in 1989-90 . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel fine , ’ said the jubilant full-back after his first taste of serious action since hobbling out of United 's title challenge last March . |
| 17 | One winter 's night about midnight , after his first perambulations , Durham went to the porter 's cellar at the station to have supper . |
| 18 | Robins , clutching the ball after his first senior hat-trick , said : ‘ Comparisons are bound to be made because I 've just scored three on TV and United are struggling . |
| 19 | For several years after his first release Bunyan hesitated whether to publish Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 20 | Dick Hansen poses alongside his Kittyhawk immediately after his first solo in her . |
| 21 | Thirty-four years after his first hit Cliff has dumped his nickname — The Peter Pan Of Pop . |
| 22 | Name the pop star who launched his new UK tour 34 years after his first hit . |
| 23 | NEW LEADER , NEW DAWN : John Smith , joined by wife Elizabeth , acknowledges the standing ovation after his first speech as leader |
| 24 | A boy came home after his first rugby game with a broken nose , a torn ear and three loose teeth , but he could n't remember who they belonged to . |
| 25 | Previously shown at Washington 's Corcoran Gallery , where the tour was launched almost exactly forty years after his first one-person exhibition held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 ; at the Menil Foundation in Houston and at Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art , ‘ Robert Rauschenberg : The Early 1950s ’ concentrates upon the artist 's activity between 1949 , when he enrolled at Black Mountain College after a short apprenticeship in Paris , and 1954 , when he embarked upon the most important series of works of his career , the combine paintings and constructions . |
| 26 | Sebastian and I had thrown eggs at Enoch Powell in Salford after his first racist speech . |
| 27 | ‘ Sebastian and I had thrown eggs at Enoch Powell in Salford after his first racist speech . |
| 28 | Soon after his first brush with ravens he had seen buzzards like Woil in the distance . |
| 29 | After his first spell with Lothian , Dr Hazel left to become a lecturer at Napier College of Commerce and Technology . |
| 30 | ‘ Swapped after his first MB . |