Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 2 | Ruiz sued TDC for violations of his rights under the first , fourth and eighth amendments to the Constitution of the United States . |
| 3 | As far as registered conveyancing is concerned , there seems no reason why the transfer should not be prepared and executed in triplicate ( or an original with examined copies ) , the original transfer being lodged at HM Land Registry , the duplicate being held with the second charge certificate and the third being retained by the husband as evidence of his release from the first mortgage and of the indemnity in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 4 | The inventor must resist any temptation he might have to publish details of his invention before the first filing date ( the priority date ) , otherwise he could inadvertently add his invention to the state of the art and anticipate his own invention . |
| 5 | Today he spoke of his ordeal for the first time.Shortly before midnight on Sunday he 'd checked and locked up the pub as normal . |
| 6 | Details of his transactions for the first month are given . |
| 7 | Mansell is looking to clinch a record-breaking ninth Grand Prix win in a season — and he underlined his determination yesterday by blasting clear of his chasers in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's Portuguese race . |
| 8 | But Steve Lunn 's superb solo effort four minutes from time , the best goal of the match , brought Shilton out of his dugout for the first time to summon all hands on deck . |
| 9 | Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders . |
| 10 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 11 | His continued absence increases speculation that Arsenal 's David Seaman will step out of his shadow for the first time in 18 months against the Poles next week . |
| 12 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |
| 13 | In 1958 , fifty years after A Room with a View was first published , Forster added an appendix to it in which he described the fate of his characters after the First World War was ended : |
| 14 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 15 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 16 | He had wanted the part of the young boy who could n't make it with his date in the first play , but he was a juvenile no more and Peter Shaffer had to convince him that it would n't work . |
| 17 | He was waiting for them with his barge by the first footbridge over the canal as they came down from the moor . |
| 18 | Sean Dodds , for Kelly , said he was out with his girlfriend for the first time since the birth of their baby . |
| 19 | WARTIME Spitfire pilot F/L Tony Cooper was recently re-united with his aircraft for the first time since crashing on marshland near the Humber Estuary in 1944 . |
| 20 | It may also have brought some families into his service for the first time , among them the Pulleys ( or Pullowes ) of Helmsley , whose head , Henry , was to be one of Richard 's yeomen after his accession . |
| 21 | It may also have brought some families into his service for the first time , among them the Pulleys ( or Pullowes ) of Helmsley , whose head , Henry , was to be one of Richard 's yeomen after his accession . |
| 22 | Now a doubt was creeping into his mind for the first time . |
| 23 | It originated probably with St Bernard in the late 1140s or early 1150s in his address to the first Cistercian pope , Eugenius III , whom he calls " vicar " and " vicar of Christ " , but it had only been employed domestically within papal circles before Innocent 's time . |
| 24 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 25 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 26 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 27 | For the purpose of answering the second part of the question he should state that he is assuming that he is wrong in his answer to the first . |
| 28 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 29 | So only six pounds a month is actually going to get invested in his fund in the first four years . |
| 30 | In his speeches of the first two books Satan shows a tremendous vigour , a responsibility to his followers , an impenetrable spirit , heroic determination never to be weak and inactive and an attractive charm and sophistication in his poetic and commanding words . |