Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 2 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 3 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 4 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 5 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 6 | ‘ Our society needs technical progress , ’ Kohl said in his first policy declaration since his election in March . |
| 7 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
| 8 | If Leonard appeared in his first book to invite comparisons , now he made statements , claims , and most of all , confessions . |
| 9 | In his Genesee Diary , Henri Nouwen wrote of his first encounter with John Eudes , head of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani , who was to become his director : |
| 10 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 11 | VINNIE Jones returned for his first match of the season and celebrated his comeback after injury with the goal which earned Wimbledon a point . |
| 12 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
| 13 | The bails needed to be off in a flash but poor Stewart missed with his first swipe . |
| 14 | The surge did n't last too long and Newton slid in his first goal seven minutes later and grabbed his second five minutes from time when he finished off a sweeping , decisive move involving Dennis Wise and Stuart . |
| 15 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |