Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 2 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 3 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 4 | He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one . |
| 5 | Now he is out of action again after fighting his way back into the first team . |
| 6 | His shoulder-length jet-black hair falls dramatically and we see his face clearly for the first time — high-cheek-boned , eyes like slits of molten anthracite . |