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

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1 Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time .
2 He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life .
3 The very first week upon his beat
4 In 1946 , in the top front page article in the very first edition of his newspaper , whose title in Arabic means ‘ The people ’ , he urged Arabs to struggle harder to maintain their land in Arab ownership in Palestine .
5 She got no further , the words swallowed up as he bent and took her mouth in a punishing kiss that stole her breath from the very first touch of his lips .
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