Example sentences of "his [noun sg] on the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 2 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 3 | His writing-room on the first floor contains an unprepossessing table and a sideboard , on which sit his word-processor and printer . |
| 4 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 5 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 6 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 7 | Hope bowed more elegantly , muttered the line about being her servant but concentrated all his will on the first look direct . |
| 8 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |