Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | One day , in Times Square , Dustin looked up and saw his face for the first time on a billboard . |
| 32 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 33 | Glendenning follows a long trail of Darlington players who have gone to Rovers , but he is unable to force his way into the first team . |
| 34 | Members of the housing committee of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities were told of a complaint by Tweeddale District Council over a request by a tenant , who was exercising his right-to-buy for the first time , that his fiancee be included as a joint purchaser . |
| 35 | He took his text from the First Book of Samuel : |
| 36 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 37 | Although the hero met his death within the first 30 pages of the trilogy , the vast and mysterious intricacies of his ‘ Seldon Plan ’ still amazed the reader after 700 . |
| 38 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 39 | Yanto reached the end of the rock bridge where it disappeared into the hard sand The walking was now relatively easy as he made his way towards the first of the salmon traps , or kipes as they were called locally . |
| 40 | He made his way across the first set of tracks and reached the tail-end of a dozen coal-laden wagons . |
| 41 | He played for Surrey second XI at 20 and made his debut for the first XI in 1947 , when he played five matches . |
| 42 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 43 | He missed Aintree 's colour and clamour , the release of easing his mount to the first fence after the parade . |
| 44 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 45 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 46 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 47 | ‘ What 's happened , Mr Gooseneck ? ’ asked Amiss , when he had worked his way through the first stage of what was one of the best breakfasts he 'd ever had in his life . |
| 48 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
| 49 | He would silence noise by poking his head down the first step and yelling threats of appalling punishment . |
| 50 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 51 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 52 | Little Rock had forced the Eisenhower administration to act and in the same year , 1957 , the President had put his support behind the first Civil Rights Act passed for over 80 years . |
| 53 | After this year , however , Gary became really confused for a couple of months and began to doubt his call in the first place . |
| 54 | Surtees was not content to end his career as the first dual world champion ; he wanted more . |
| 55 | Nicholas impeded his generals in the first campaigning season by taking the field personally , but in 1829 Ivan Dibich led the army deep into eastern Thrace while Paskevich , in the east , took Kars and Erzerum ( a campaign immortalized in prose by Aleksandr Pushkin ) . |
| 56 | The TV presenter looked across at the sergeant , as though registering his presence for the first time . |
| 57 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 58 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 59 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 60 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |