Example sentences of "[prep] his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after his first brush with ravens he had seen buzzards like Woil in the distance . |
| 2 | After his first spell with Lothian , Dr Hazel left to become a lecturer at Napier College of Commerce and Technology . |
| 3 | The GP visited again 10 days after his first call and asked that I continue to review the wound regularly and alter the dressings as necessary . |
| 4 | ‘ Swapped after his first MB . |
| 5 | Wilkinson was accused of being a ‘ cheat ’ by Bristol goalkeeper Brian Parkin after his first goal in an exciting second-half comeback . |
| 6 | For several years after his first release Bunyan hesitated whether to publish Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 7 | One winter 's night about midnight , after his first perambulations , Durham went to the porter 's cellar at the station to have supper . |
| 8 | Nearly two decades after his first solo album , and four years since his last , Cale has signed to the Opal company ( run by his old friend Brian Eno ) who have just released Words for the Dying , the bulk of which is Cale 's first extended classical work , The Falklands Suite . |
| 9 | Dick Hansen poses alongside his Kittyhawk immediately after his first solo in her . |
| 10 | Standing on the factory roof , after his first day 's work , Tom was already on duty as a fire watcher . |
| 11 | A boy came home after his first rugby game with a broken nose , a torn ear and three loose teeth , but he could n't remember who they belonged to . |
| 12 | The Blankety Blank star , who married the ex-barmaid 17 years his junior after his first wife Meg died from cancer , recorded the interview for Radio 4 's In The Psychiatrist 's Chair just a week before he died of a heart attack in June . |
| 13 | He was cautioned after his first offence when he was 13 . |
| 14 | Clinton 's reign as world champion has been blemished by controversy because of the debate over the validity of his win over the Mexican , Isidro Perez , to win his title and the verdict given the Scot after his first defence against Danny Porter , from London . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel fine , ’ said the jubilant full-back after his first taste of serious action since hobbling out of United 's title challenge last March . |
| 16 | A year after his first interview at Bloomsbury House , he was still saying that ‘ he really wanted some particular friend who would take a close interest in him ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish I could stay out there until dark , ’ he said after his first round . |
| 18 | So besieged was he after his first round that he sought refuge for a while on the practice putting green . |
| 19 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 20 | 9 days after his first symptoms there was an increase in creatine kinase ( 1281 U/L ) , a high proportion of which was isoenzyme B ( 97 U/L ) , indicating myocardial origin . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that Sir John Reresby appeared twice after his first entry , presumably as the owner of empty houses , and that women who were heads of households were often described as widows rather than given their Christian names . |
| 22 | The Sonata is imaginatively coupled with Britten 's , written after his first meeting with Shostakovich in 1961 . |
| 23 | Montag returns home just after his first meeting with Clarisse to discover his wife has taken an overdose of sleeping tablets . |
| 24 | SANDY LYLE conducted another exercise in self-immolation while Chip Beck discovered that his gunpowder was damp and useless but at least the American left a legacy after his first visit to the Suntory World Matchplay Championship . |
| 25 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 26 | This success followed some ten years after his first stage appearance at the age of 19 months when he was pushed on stage by an enthusiastic aunt to dance . |
| 27 | NEW LEADER , NEW DAWN : John Smith , joined by wife Elizabeth , acknowledges the standing ovation after his first speech as leader |
| 28 | But after his first shot , Mr Smith will find it virtually impossible to raise much additional revenue from the better-off . |
| 29 | After a routine check just after his first birthday we were told that Cameron is quite normal . |
| 30 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |