Example sentences of "[verb] his first real " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph Ford , frightened because he was about to fight his first real battle , worried that either he or his men might not do their duty and , as ever when worry overwhelmed him , he snatched off his spectacles and polished their lenses on his sash . |
| 2 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 3 | By the time he 'd reached his teens , Johnny had been exposed to rock'n'roll and put his first real band together , Johnny and the Jammers , still with Edgar at his side on piano . |
| 4 | From there he had his first real glimpse of the Lake District and fell in love with the area about a quarter of which was in Lancashire until 1974 . |
| 5 | Boadicea raised her goblet , the hero flashed past , he 'd survived his first real bumpy ride . |
| 6 | Introduced initially as an agreeable aristocrat , he faces his first real challenge when he falls in love with the King 's cousin and destined bride , the Princess Flavia , with chivalric self-denial . |