Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 2 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 3 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 4 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 5 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |