Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] his first [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two laps Grandon fell back slightly leaving Lyons and Murray to forge ahead with Murray seeming set for his first victory in the province . |
| 2 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 3 | GRAEME SOUNESS was one week short of his first anniversary in charge of Liverpool when the stresses and strains of football management took their heavy toll . |
| 4 | It was in essence this same three-fold promise of the Anglo-Saxons that was used for coronations throughout the thirteenth century in England : King Richard I at his first coronation in 1189 swore " to maintain peace and honour and to reverence the Church , to annul any evil laws , and to make and maintain good laws " . |
| 5 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |