Example sentences of "[adv] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so his first one is about equilibrium . |
| 2 | PRESIDENT F W de Klerk 's decision to release Walter Sisulu and seven other long-detainees is only his first step along the road of political reform in South Africa — but an important one . |
| 3 | Soon the little terrace house became a hub of domestic activity when not only his first daughter Eleanor Elizabeth played with his half brother but they were joined two years later by his second daughter , Florence . |
| 4 | If your husband had more than one wife , under the laws of another country , then only his first wife receives a widow 's pension . |
| 5 | They would no doubt have been astonished , of not appalled , if they had been able to glimpse the bitterness and pain of the long voyage that lay ahead , In some ways the exile on which the Shah was now embarked echoed not only his first exile in 1953 , but even that of his father , Reza Shah , before him . |
| 6 | It was no surprise when he was signed up to play for Somerset on a three-year contract after only his first tour of England . |
| 7 | This was his fourth patrol of the day and only his first kill of the week . |
| 8 | This is only his first week on food like this . |
| 9 | At sixteen , he put together his first group and , with a cash present from his grandfather , put out a record of his own songs . |
| 10 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 11 | Thus his first action on returning to the Questura the day before had been to send his inspectors out to question the people living in the houses along the road to Cannara and talk to the local farmers , just in case anyone had seen anything . |
| 12 | Such was his hurry to get into the clubhouse from the 18th green that he was almost bowling people over in his haste and later he admitted to feeling ‘ very down ’ , still trying to get over his first round of 76 when ‘ everything went wrong ’ . |
| 13 | And so Robert Titford , Master Mariner , took over his first command . |
| 14 | Aimar promised to give no more help to his half-brothers of Angoulême and handed over his first — and third-born sons as hostages . |
| 15 | He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ . |
| 16 | Manager Tommy Gilmour will fly to Puerto Rico in three weeks to try and bring the Camacho fight to Glasgow in January , giving Weir almost three months to get over his first ever cut in one hundred and sixty seven fights as both amateur and professional . |
| 17 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 18 | It was not his first win . |
| 19 | It 's not his first scientific expedition . |
| 20 | It 's not his first scientific expedition . |
| 21 | Not his first name , his surname : In future make your questions clear , ferret features . |
| 22 | Hereford 's top scorer is Owen Pickard … he 's hit seven this season … the best possibly his first on the opening day … tomorrow he 's off to Gigg Lane to have a crack at Bury … |
| 23 | He said yesterday his first priorities would be to tackle inflation and the widening trade gap . |
| 24 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |
| 25 | Practically his first request to her had been to ask her to clean his shoes ! ) |
| 26 | His cabinet was conventional and " safe " ; but his White House staff were drawn mainly from Georgia — probably his first mistake . |
| 27 | It was also his first signal to the Soviet press that old habits were no longer good enough . |
| 28 | Hazlitt , facing death , was still able to say , proudly , that his last hopes or ideals were also his first ones . |
| 29 | Cis was also his first conquest . |
| 30 | In 1990 — also his first year on the Tour — Nicklaus restricted himself to just four tournaments and won two of them , collecting $340,000 in total . |