Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 2 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 3 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 4 | In 1949 , during a stay at Belle Ile , Kelly produced his first Abstract works , taking as his starting point a window frame or patches of moss on a wall . |
| 5 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 6 | Ambassador : Following his time with Wilson and Callaghan , Sir Patrick got his first embassy , Luxembourg , in 1977 . |
| 7 | BRIAN Little got his first taste of League football by watching Hartlepool in action at the Victoria Ground in the Seventies . |
| 8 | Mond made his first steps in the business that would one day help form ICI , by finding better ways to make ‘ soda ash , ’ sodium carbonate . |
| 9 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 10 | Mr Singh asked his first question : ‘ Would it be next September ? ’ |
| 11 | Bill Levy took over as editor , and Mick Farren , whose relationship with It was to survive the history of the underground made his first appearance . |
| 12 | That September the President made his first significant move to provide military equipment to the British government . |
| 13 | Sgt. Deacon made his first sortie in V3978 , seeing five CR 42s , but being unable to engage these . |
| 14 | Thus , in October of 1154 , Barbarossa mounted his first expedition , with the aim of restoring papal authority where it had been challenged , and fully realising the imperial crown . |
| 15 | Owers played his first full game for three months in the derby win over Middlesbrough and then gave boss Malcolm Crosby a welcome cup final headache . |
| 16 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 17 | The shock of falling behind sparked Wolves into life and they were level nine minutes later when the former Doncaster midfielder Mark Rankine scored his first goal for Wolves with a powerful header from Ashley 's centre . |
| 18 | The new Earl of Torrington faced his first challenge on 21 June , when a French squadron 75 strong , with 6 frigates and 20 fireships , was sighted off the Lizard , moving up channel as if to blockade the Thames . |
| 19 | French President François Mitterrand paid his first official visit to the new German states on Sept. 18-20 at the invitation of von Weizsäcker who accompanied him . |
| 20 | Professor Ron Amann obtained his first degree , Master 's and PhD at Birmingham . |
| 21 | Eric Shipton spent his first alpine season in the Dauphiné in 1925 . |
| 22 | In the afternoon , William Halliday achieved his first Horse of the Year Show victory some 12 months after leaving his long-term employment as Harvey Smith 's stable jockey . |
| 23 | On July 8 , 1967 , Alcock discovered his first nova , in the constellation Delphinus . |
| 24 | WOORKERI RAMAN hit his first one-day international century to lead India to a four-wicket victory over South Africa with five balls remaining in Pretoria yesterday . |
| 25 | Dr Jacks decided his first task was to listen to Mandy independently and find out the reason for her visit . |
| 26 | CHRIS SMALL grabbed his first professional title and a Pounds 3,000 winner 's cheque with an incredible 9–1 win last night against world No 13 Alan McManus in the £25,000 Benson & Hedges Championship in Glasgow . |
| 27 | He was jitterbugging with the recoil , and the gun 's momentum kept his first sweep going for a couple of yards even after he realised he 'd missed me . |
| 28 | I think if Dvořák knew his First Symphony was being regularly played he would not have been entirely happy , for undoubtedly had he revised it , it would have been a wholly different work , and probably shorter . |
| 29 | Blakey won his first two Test caps on this tour in similar circumstances — first at Madras when Graham Gooch was ill and Atherton was again ignored , and then at Bombay when Neil Fairbrother was unwell . |
| 30 | That the winning of a British Open championship is a two-man team even can best be illustrated by two of the great tournament 's champions of the past — two immortals who owe a little of their immortality to the men who strode beside them when they made history : when Henry Cotton won his first Open in 1934 , he paid tribute to Ernest Butler of Sandwich , a caddie who was ‘ uncanny with his advice concerning the line of the hole ’ . |