Example sentences of "of his [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Ruiz sued TDC for violations of his rights under the first , fourth and eighth amendments to the Constitution of the United States .
2 As far as registered conveyancing is concerned , there seems no reason why the transfer should not be prepared and executed in triplicate ( or an original with examined copies ) , the original transfer being lodged at HM Land Registry , the duplicate being held with the second charge certificate and the third being retained by the husband as evidence of his release from the first mortgage and of the indemnity in respect of the second mortgage .
3 The inventor must resist any temptation he might have to publish details of his invention before the first filing date ( the priority date ) , otherwise he could inadvertently add his invention to the state of the art and anticipate his own invention .
4 Today he spoke of his ordeal for the first time.Shortly before midnight on Sunday he 'd checked and locked up the pub as normal .
5 Details of his transactions for the first month are given .
6 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 .
7 But Steve Lunn 's superb solo effort four minutes from time , the best goal of the match , brought Shilton out of his dugout for the first time to summon all hands on deck .
8 Thus when the girl secretary who was to become Dostoevsky 's wife rang the bell of his flat for the first time , the door was opened by an elderly woman servant with a green shawl thrown over her shoulders .
9 Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price .
10 His continued absence increases speculation that Arsenal 's David Seaman will step out of his shadow for the first time in 18 months against the Poles next week .
11 The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective .
12 In 1958 , fifty years after A Room with a View was first published , Forster added an appendix to it in which he described the fate of his characters after the First World War was ended :
13 She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance .
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