Example sentences of "[verb] his first " in BNC.

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1 He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus .
2 He has won his first five fights inside the distance and is scheduled to fight again in Phoenix before flying home to Belfast .
3 The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend .
4 THE golfer Sandy Lyle has won his first contract to design an 18-hole championship course , about 25 miles from Berlin .
5 Sir Phil , who walked away with about £70m from the takeover of Harris Queensway , has built Carpetright into one of Britain 's leading carpet retailers after opening his first store in London 's Canning Town in 1988 .
6 He looked round , somewhat disappointed his first resolution met no opposition .
7 Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 .
8 The child now turns the paper over , or covers his first attempt , if it was right , and writes it again from memory .
9 He wanted her to agree to walk out with him : to accept his first and formal step on the path to marriage .
10 Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production .
11 Given the standard-setting qualities of the team 's FW15 car , which will make its racing debut at Kyalami in 12 weeks , there is every chance Hill may not only win his first race with the Didcot team but also go on to challenge for his first title .
12 Another of his specialities was plate-spinning — Maskelyne traced his first ambition to be a conjuror to his experience as a boy watching Antonio Blitz , a famous plate-spinner , perform .
13 He is quietly working his way to the top as a referee — and he is just 18 months away from landing his first League fixture .
14 So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan .
15 Forty years later , in his biography The Sweeping Wind ( 1962 ) , he described his first impressions : ‘ a young red-headed man , very tall and slightly stooped , nervous , his face spotty red as if about to explode into a dermatosis …
16 Hywel Jeffreys ( Jeff Camnant ) described his first day underground :
17 In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ .
18 I do n't know his first name , but he was a consultant in some hospital in Carlisle and he ran a backup laboratory near Langstone in Cumbria . ’
19 but I do n't know his first name .
20 OPENINGS LONDON AIR GALLERY Dave Mulholland , a Newcastle-born artist who has worked in locations as diverse as New York and Durham , and has organised community mural projects in London and the North-east , has his first solo exhibition at the Air Gallery in Islington , writes Paul Dunn .
21 However , I take a chance that all is well with Jabrut ( 2.15 ) , who has his first outing since landing a gamble in novice company here last November .
22 However , I take a chance that all is well with Jabrut ( 2.15 ) , who has his first outing since landing a gamble in novice company here last November .
23 Finally , ex-Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin has his first solo release , ‘ Ju Ju Hounds ’ , out now on Geffen/MCA Records .
24 John has his first truly good day for two months .
25 The two British participants are Barry Flanagan , who is showing two hessian sculptures , and Richard Long , prominently included by an early sculpture of three stone rings and a selection of photographs documenting his first walks in England and abroad .
26 His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture .
27 Richard Arkwright , the greatest of the new industrial capitalists , erected his first spinning mill , worked by horses , at Nottingham in 1768 , but his second factory , built on a much larger scale at Cromford on the Derwent in 1771 , was driven by water-power .
28 That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum .
29 He was a protégé of Sir William Chambers , who saw to it that he worked in every artistic department , including that of interior decoration , before he designed his first house at the age of eighteen .
30 Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later .
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