Example sentences of "his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said yesterday his first priorities would be to tackle inflation and the widening trade gap . |
| 2 | Les Conn : ‘ By this time , I had arranged a recording test with Decca and David had his first single released called Liza Jane which was on Vocalion . ’ |
| 3 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
| 4 | PETER GABRIEL : ‘ Digging In The Dirt ’ world music benefactor and Genesis escapee releases his first single in five years , produced by Daniel Lanois and taken from his forthcoming album ‘ Us ’ |
| 5 | Stars & Stripes ' 44-seconds defeat by America on Saturday , in a good sailing breeze , meant Conner lost his first chance to ensure a place in the defenders ' final . |
| 6 | Dustin was given his first chance to be in pictures . |
| 7 | Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business . |
| 8 | Jason Cundy gets his first chance to play against his former club since moving from Stamford Bridge last season — ‘ I still do n't know why they sold me — I thought I was there for my career , ‘ he says — but Meanwhile , in-form Chelsea will be without the suspended Mick Harford . |
| 9 | And what should she do when the engineering company which is building the road offers her younger brother his first chance of a job ? |
| 10 | By the 1870s the Primitives were strongly associated with agricultural trade unionism and the pulpit offered many an articulate labourer his first chance at public speaking . |
| 11 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 12 | ‘ On the first stage of his first rally in an Astra he was 19 seconds faster than anyone else . |
| 13 | Mungo loosed his first bowl . |
| 14 | Salisbury had had his first bowl , though not from the usual legspinner 's end . |
| 15 | It was his first bowl of the day , and in his third over his extra pace defeated Mujtaba 's attempt to pull through midwicket ; Smith held a standard catch . |
| 16 | If ever a politician lost his audience with his first sentence it was Meacher . |
| 17 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |
| 18 | He destroyed my dreams in his first sentence by assuring me that the current wrought iron well cover only dated to the beginning of this century . |
| 19 | ‘ Just a short sprint leaves you struggling for breath , ’ said the younger Stewart , on his first tour with England . |
| 20 | Joe Lydon 's impressive form at full-back , combined with an ability to play anywhere in the three-quarters , sees him make his third tour , while the man for whom he has deputised in recent weeks , Steve Hampson , goes on his first tour . |
| 21 | There were no hotels in the Holy Land when Thomas accompanied his first tour there in 1868 , so the whole Cook 's party of sixty people became a vast caravan , accompanied by sixty-five horses , eighty-seven pack mules , tents , beds and field kitchens to prepare gargantuan Victorian breakfasts of boiled eggs followed by chicken and cutlets , and dinners of seven courses including wild boar and mutton . |
| 22 | Writer Tim Hilton , art critic of The Guardian , is a passionate cyclist who saw his first Tour in 1955 and has followed it ever since . |
| 23 | To give you an example , South African hooker Uli Schmidt will be going on his first tour . |
| 24 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
| 25 | The buttons , originally silver , were replaced with gold Wehrmacht generals ' buttons during his first tour of the Eastern Front in 1943 . |
| 26 | Also in 1875 Townsend made his first tour to the Continent ; throughout his life he made regular visits to Europe , especially to northern Italy , where he developed a lifelong interest in architectural mosaics . |
| 27 | The impulsive left- hander Aamir Sohail , on his first tour of England , showed the confidence of a veteran . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On his first tour to New Zealand in 1990 , he emerged as leading points scorer with 92 from six tries and 34 goals . |
| 30 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |