Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 2 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 3 | Hodkinson will make the first inroads into his fortune by taking a holiday with his wife to Las Vegas to watch the Lennox Lewis-Tony Tucker WBC heavyweight championship fight on May 8 . |
| 4 | WELSHMAN Robbie Regan will make the first defence of his European flyweight crown against Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the National Ice Rink , Cardiff on January 19 . |
| 5 | CARDIFF 'S Steve Robinson will make the first defence of his WBO World featherweight title at the city 's national ice rink on July 10 against British title holder Shaun Murphy , of St Albans . |
| 6 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 7 | Norman Fowler who , as is customary , devoted the first part of his reply to saying something nice about the speakers ( ‘ Amaranth Wilikins does not need me to gild her lily . |
| 8 | Antony then concludes the first part of his speech with an impressive display of emotion . |
| 9 | Winger Lee Sharpe scored the first goal of his memorable comeback and said : ‘ I do n't think I 've ever played in a better team perform-ance . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 11 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 12 | He also ( at any rate while writing the first part of his book ) admired the young Charles , who consulted with his nobles and followed the good counsels of bishops . |
| 13 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 14 | In his last years Monet stumbled upon the exquisite notion that colour in itself could become the first subject for his art ; painting has never looked back/ |
| 15 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 16 | As the Prime Minister approaches the first anniversary of his move into his new home , will he spare a thought for the tens of thousands who , because of his policies , are now losing theirs ? |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Leicester City fans have claimed Middlesbrough star Jamie Pollock encouraged a pitch invasion after scoring the first goal of his career at Filbert Street . |
| 18 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 19 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 20 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 21 | JULIO Cesar Chavez escaped the first defeat of his 88-bout career and Pernell Whitaker retained the WBC welterweight title when they battled to a 12-round draw in San Antonio , Texas last night . |
| 22 | JULIO Cesar Chavez escaped the first defeat of his 88-bout career and Pernell Whitaker retained the WBC welterweight title when they battled to a 12-round draw in San Antonio , Texas , last night . |
| 23 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 24 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |
| 25 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 26 | Three or four weeks ago , everyone watched the first wobbles of his journey with a critical eye , so critical , in fact , that they did not notice when he picked up speed later . |
| 27 | As he delivered the first ball of his third over on that fateful sunny afternoon , his left knee split apart , fracturing in two . |
| 28 | On 15 October 1970 , Dustin had a photographer stationed outside the delivery room of the hospital ready to film the first moments of his first child 's life . |
| 29 | Christmas 1939 brought the first recognition by his superiors of the service he had performed . |
| 30 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |