Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |
2 | Nothing is known of his education and early life , but on 17 February 1826 he received his first certificate of suitability for a post in the excise service . |
3 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
4 | In 1920 he published his first article , on the Hall 's history , in the first issue of its magazine , which he had launched , and in 1927 he produced a pioneering , scholarly study , An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times . |
5 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
6 | In 1853 he married his first cousin , Henrietta Elizabeth , daughter of Samuel Wood . |
7 | On 6 May 1749 he married his first wife Martha , daughter of John Hudson , of Thames Street , London , hop merchant . |
8 | In 1922 he published his first book , Le Dragon de bambou , ridiculing the reforms in Annam . |
9 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
10 | In 1694 he published his first copybook , The Pen-man 's Treasury Open 'd . |
11 | In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . |
12 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
13 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |