Example sentences of "[verb] to his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 2 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 3 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 4 | Phil Gelderd praised the list in glowing terms before going to his first Leeds game for years — sadly for him he picked the recent one against Norwich . |
| 5 | he 's still tied to his first wife . |
| 6 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 7 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 8 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
| 9 | But the student who goes to his first lecture without any idea at all of what he is to face is working quite inefficiently . |
| 10 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 11 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
| 12 | Zurbriggen , the Olympic downhill champion and World Cup super-giant titleholder , swept to his first victory since November 1988 in the ninth World Cup race of the current programme in 1min 37.39sec . |
| 13 | Kevin Dutton was unsure of the reaction he would get to his first unconventional portrait of a British comedian , he certainly did n't expect to find others demanding the same treatment . |
| 14 | He was sent to his first school there . |
| 15 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |
| 16 | He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood . |