Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 2 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 3 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 4 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 5 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 6 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 7 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 8 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |