Example sentences of "in his [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | He revealed that more than 100 people were hurt in 81 accidents in his county in the first eight months of this year . |
| 4 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 5 | For the purpose of answering the second part of the question he should state that he is assuming that he is wrong in his answer to the first . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So only six pounds a month is actually going to get invested in his fund in the first four years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Walking from the taxi to his apartment , Ross had felt the sting and throb in his face for the first time . |
| 10 | If the state was not present in his novels from the first , it is there in One Fat Englishman , and in Jake 's Thing . |
| 11 | The old man , propped in his chair for the first time in over a month , laid a trembling hand on the babe 's head . |