Example sentences of "of the first [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |
| 2 | In the case of William Wordsworth we are fortunate in possessing his own very full account of the first part of his life , roughly down to the mid-1790s , in the ‘ Poem ’ addressed to Coleridge which we now know as The Prelude . |
| 3 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 4 | Virtually the whole of the first half of his first volume was devoted by Clarkson to discussing individuals and intellectual and religious traditions whose contributions to antislavery converged in unity in the organisation of the committee of 1787 . |
| 5 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 6 | Lane sprang out of the first car at his approach . |
| 7 | The former Conservative minister and company chairman was being cross-examined at the end of the first week of his libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , who circulated a pamphlet in 1987 saying the peer was responsible for repatriating 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs to be massacred by the communists in 1945 . |
| 8 | The French title of the first volume of his History sums up his preoccupation : La Volonté de savoir , ‘ The will to know ’ . |
| 9 | In the first paragraph of the first chapter of his Description of Greece , Pausanias mentions the silver mines of Attica , at Laurion in the south-east . |