Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOTOR RACING : DAMON HILL is aiming for his first Grand Prix win in the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend . |
| 2 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 3 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 4 | These experiences are fictionalized in his first novel , The Crust on Its Uppers ( republished by Serpent 's Tail to coincide with the publication of The Hidden Files ) . |
| 5 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 6 | These epistemological questions are examined in his first book . |
| 7 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 8 | Bishop Daly was speaking during his first interview since suffering the stroke seven months ago . |
| 9 | Tufnell took nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs , as Sri Lanka moved smoothly to 140 for one in reply . |
| 10 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Julian ’ and the hyphenated surname were adopted before his first marriage . ) |
| 12 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |
| 13 | Carson opens up on Gipsy Fiddler in the high speed five furlong dash and Gispy Fiddler 's trainer Jonjo O'Neill is looking for his first win of the season . |
| 14 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 15 | He walked free from court after after it was revealed that a detective in the case was sleeping with his first wife . |
| 16 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 17 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |