Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 2 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 3 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 4 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 5 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 6 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 7 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 8 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 9 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 10 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 11 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 12 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |