Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he allows his wife to make the first wish ; she wishes for him : ( " That you should be completely covered with penises " ) |
| 2 | To enhance even further the quality and efficiency of the yard 's hull shapes , he persuaded his father to build the first commercial test tank in the world in 1881 , with assistance from Froude 's son , superintendent of the Admiralty test tank in Torquay . |
| 3 | He had previously pedalled his way to make the first cycle crossings of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco , and of Lapland from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea . |
| 4 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 5 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |