Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 2 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 3 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 4 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 5 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 8 | 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% . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |