Example sentences of "[verb] his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE golfer Sandy Lyle has won his first contract to design an 18-hole championship course , about 25 miles from Berlin . |
| 2 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 3 | Sir Phil , who walked away with about £70m from the takeover of Harris Queensway , has built Carpetright into one of Britain 's leading carpet retailers after opening his first store in London 's Canning Town in 1988 . |
| 4 | He looked round , somewhat disappointed his first resolution met no opposition . |
| 5 | Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 . |
| 6 | The child now turns the paper over , or covers his first attempt , if it was right , and writes it again from memory . |
| 7 | Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production . |
| 8 | Given the standard-setting qualities of the team 's FW15 car , which will make its racing debut at Kyalami in 12 weeks , there is every chance Hill may not only win his first race with the Didcot team but also go on to challenge for his first title . |
| 9 | Another of his specialities was plate-spinning — Maskelyne traced his first ambition to be a conjuror to his experience as a boy watching Antonio Blitz , a famous plate-spinner , perform . |
| 10 | He is quietly working his way to the top as a referee — and he is just 18 months away from landing his first League fixture . |
| 11 | So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan . |
| 12 | Hywel Jeffreys ( Jeff Camnant ) described his first day underground : |
| 13 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 14 | Forty years later , in his biography The Sweeping Wind ( 1962 ) , he described his first impressions : ‘ a young red-headed man , very tall and slightly stooped , nervous , his face spotty red as if about to explode into a dermatosis … |
| 15 | I do n't know his first name , but he was a consultant in some hospital in Carlisle and he ran a backup laboratory near Langstone in Cumbria . ’ |
| 16 | but I do n't know his first name . |
| 17 | However , I take a chance that all is well with Jabrut ( 2.15 ) , who has his first outing since landing a gamble in novice company here last November . |
| 18 | However , I take a chance that all is well with Jabrut ( 2.15 ) , who has his first outing since landing a gamble in novice company here last November . |
| 19 | OPENINGS LONDON AIR GALLERY Dave Mulholland , a Newcastle-born artist who has worked in locations as diverse as New York and Durham , and has organised community mural projects in London and the North-east , has his first solo exhibition at the Air Gallery in Islington , writes Paul Dunn . |
| 20 | Finally , ex-Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin has his first solo release , ‘ Ju Ju Hounds ’ , out now on Geffen/MCA Records . |
| 21 | The two British participants are Barry Flanagan , who is showing two hessian sculptures , and Richard Long , prominently included by an early sculpture of three stone rings and a selection of photographs documenting his first walks in England and abroad . |
| 22 | His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture . |
| 23 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 24 | He was a protégé of Sir William Chambers , who saw to it that he worked in every artistic department , including that of interior decoration , before he designed his first house at the age of eighteen . |
| 25 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 26 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 27 | BUDDY Holly fan Bobby Vee owes his first break in the showbusiness world to the singer 's death . |
| 28 | A Toraja boy desires his own fighting cock just as longingly as a youngster might desire his first motorbike in the West . |
| 29 | Yet he soon divorced his first wife , quite casually , to cement a treaty against his brother Carloman , and certainly paid little or no attention to orthodox Christian morality . |
| 30 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |