Example sentences of "[verb] his first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Arkwright , the greatest of the new industrial capitalists , erected his first spinning mill , worked by horses , at Nottingham in 1768 , but his second factory , built on a much larger scale at Cromford on the Derwent in 1771 , was driven by water-power . |
| 2 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |
| 3 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 4 | On the death of his grandfather in 1938 Keyes was inspired to write his first serious poem ‘ Elegy ’ . |
| 5 | Anthony Powell , who once encouraged Waugh to write his first full-length book — a biography of Rossetti ( 1928 ) — has suggested that Waugh revived simplicity because he was himself simple : |
| 6 | For Darwin then drew his first explicit analogies between adaptation in wild species and the fitness for human ends of domestic races , as both due to selective breeding . |
| 7 | The problem here was not the distance , only 28 miles [ 45 km ] , but the intervening ridge of high ground , which rose to a height of 2500 feet [ 760 m ] , and the River Spey , across which he built his first double-arched bridge , 180 feet [ 55 m ] long ; another four single-arch bridges were required elsewhere on the route . |
| 8 | Acquiring his first proper guitar at the age of ten , Ry first discovered bluegrass and then the country blues players : the Rev. Gary Davis ( who gave Ry lessons ) , Lightnin' Hopkins , Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee and Son House , plus Howlin' Wolf , Muddy Waters and Sleepy John Estes . |
| 9 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 10 | Britain 's Colin McRae , the only driver other than Sainz to have led the rally , finished a battling sixth in his Subaru Legacy to confirm that he will be a force to be reckoned with when he returns to tackle his first full World Championship season next year . |
| 11 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 12 | During a parliamentary session on March 7-9 Walesa suffered his first major legislative setback when he was defeated by substantial majorities in several votes . |
| 13 | THE four Lincolnshire farmers who financed Jim Payne 's first season as a professional saw their faith repaid in Majorca yesterday when the 22-year-old from Sandilands scored his first European Tour victory . |
| 14 | He replaced Fitzroy Simpson with former Shrewsbury striker Carl Griffiths who created City 's first goal for Mike Sheron in the 54th minute and then scored his first Premier goal six minutes later after a suicidal back headewr by Leeds defender Chris Fairclough . |
| 15 | He scored his first senior hat-trick and stole the thunder of Ian Wright , who was anxious — too anxious , said Mr Graham — to impress against his former team-mates . |
| 16 | The scriptwriter of My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid has written his first published novel which , like the two films , is plump with challenging statements about class , race , and sex . |
| 17 | Sheron has collected his first Under-21 cap and his first Young Eagle of the Month Award . |
| 18 | HARRY Mead is entitled to his opinion and I think we might have suffered his first disparaging comment on Bowes Museum and its founders ( Echo June 5 ) without protest . |
| 19 | ‘ I am very pleased to be sitting here , ’ he told his first organized Grand Prix press conference in Japan . |
| 20 | When Franco composed his first post-war cabinet , in August 1939 , he was aware that confrontation was imminent in Europe , so his choices also reflected a desire to balance these conflicts of external sympathies . |
| 21 | In 1908 , Beveridge , who by now was an acknowledged expert on unemployment and its remedies , joined the Board of Trade as an unestablished civil servant and prepared his first brief for the president , Winston Churchill . |
| 22 | Besides , the promise John had shown now attracted his first outside commissions . |
| 23 | But Stefan had everything under control and he could not resist the temptation to open his first new production on his own rostrum . |
| 24 | The fourth-seeded Croatian , who took his ace tally for the week to 42 , will contest his first clay-court final since 1990 . |
| 25 | In February 1943 Wingate had made his first long-range penetration into North Burma , cut the railway in seventy places and crossed the Irrawaddy . |
| 26 | Allen Ginsberg was writing his first major work Howl that summer in the Village . |
| 27 | One can perhaps understand why John Keats , ’ writing his first mature work of poetry , managed to confuse Balboa with Cortez ; a young and sensitive man , Keats may well have balked at including a figure capable of such wanton cruelty in a sonnet devoted to such tender sentiments . |
| 28 | But he was close on 34 when , in 1951 , he played his first full season for Surrey under M R Barton . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ronald Colman , who became universally well known as a film actor in the 1920s and 1930s , played his first acting rolls in the Bedford Park Club . |