Example sentences of "his [noun] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 2 | ( vii ) In every case it is made clear to the prisoner from the information supplied to him that he may not be recommended for release at the end of his tariff period at the first or any subsequent review . |
| 3 | McRae , who had led in his Subaru Legacy on the first day , was 28 seconds behind Jonsson — winning for the second successive year . |
| 4 | Ecstatic too when he sees his baby daughter for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 6 | Whipped a porn magazine out of his flight case after the first gin and tonic . |
| 7 | You know what caused his kidney problem in the first place . |
| 8 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 9 | But yesterday he celebrated as he was allowed back to his Manchester home for the first time . |
| 10 | His slip catch on the first day — high to his left and almost beyond him — to dismiss Morris may not be bettered however long this season runs . |