Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Rock had forced the Eisenhower administration to act and in the same year , 1957 , the President had put his support behind the first Civil Rights Act passed for over 80 years . |
| 2 | The BDDA 's farewell gesture to him was his election as the first Honourary Vice-president . |
| 3 | The Fourth Gospel , for example , does not lie when it puts into the mouth of Christ words , and whole patterns of speech , which we do not find on His lips in the first three gospels . |
| 4 | In his speeches of the first two books Satan shows a tremendous vigour , a responsibility to his followers , an impenetrable spirit , heroic determination never to be weak and inactive and an attractive charm and sophistication in his poetic and commanding words . |
| 5 | I remember his determination at the first exploratory meeting in the upstairs room of a small pub off Victoria Street in London . |
| 6 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 7 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 8 | Surtees was not content to end his career as the first dual world champion ; he wanted more . |
| 9 | Nicholas impeded his generals in the first campaigning season by taking the field personally , but in 1829 Ivan Dibich led the army deep into eastern Thrace while Paskevich , in the east , took Kars and Erzerum ( a campaign immortalized in prose by Aleksandr Pushkin ) . |
| 10 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 11 | His son Graeme must take some of the blame for this , for his approach at the first extra hole found sand and his drive at the second left his father with an uneven stance on a bank . |
| 12 | It originated probably with St Bernard in the late 1140s or early 1150s in his address to the first Cistercian pope , Eugenius III , whom he calls " vicar " and " vicar of Christ " , but it had only been employed domestically within papal circles before Innocent 's time . |
| 13 | So only six pounds a month is actually going to get invested in his fund in the first four years . |
| 14 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 15 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 16 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 17 | Mansell is looking to clinch a record-breaking ninth Grand Prix win in a season — and he underlined his determination yesterday by blasting clear of his chasers in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's Portuguese race . |
| 18 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 19 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 20 | It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years . |
| 21 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 22 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 23 | Although the hero met his death within the first 30 pages of the trilogy , the vast and mysterious intricacies of his ‘ Seldon Plan ’ still amazed the reader after 700 . |