Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] his first " in BNC.

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1 A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us .
2 The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy .
3 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 .
4 That September the President made his first significant move to provide military equipment to the British government .
5 His brother , Francisco Garçia Lorca , has very finely defined the canciones , one of the most notable poetic forms used by Lorca , as a lyric in which : the poet checks his first flights in order to achieve greater purification …
6 It would be a brave man who would accuse Aitken of cheating on his present club to protect his first senior team , however , and a foolish one who continued to harbour the notion after watching his display of honest professionalism .
7 KING GEORGE hero The Fellow is now as short as 7-4 ( from 3-1 ) with Coral to land his first Gold Cup at Cheltenham in March .
8 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 .
9 In 1988 , the Brazilian won his first title when the ‘ 11 out of 16 ’ rule applied , despite Prost having a higher gross total .
10 The Sussex county player from Ham Manor achieved his first major victory by dint of a brilliant afternoon round of 66 for a total of 137 , one better than Stephen Pullan ( Sand Moor ) , who carded a brace of 69s .
11 RICHARD HANNON is eyeing the gold in a bid to clinch his first ever trainer 's title .
12 Sheila 's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss .
13 BARRY METCALFE from Boughton Hall plays his first Wales Minor Counties cricket championship game of the season against Dorset starting at Sherbourne School tomorrow .
14 In ancient Greek myth Harlequin made his first appearance as Hermes ( or Mercury ) , the messenger of the gods and himself the god of all animals and travellers .
15 But only use the name you are entitled to use ( ie say ‘ Mr Smith ’ not ‘ Bert ’ — even if your boss uses his first name ) .
16 Watts withstood a tremendous charge from Taiwan 's Chen Tse-chung to win his first title by just one shot on 274 .
17 And Gadfly spent his first 25 years in Shildon .
18 Within a minute Kerly had latched himself on to a Robert Clift free hit to score his first goal .
19 A clinging-to-the-van-sides return joined us in one jostling clamorous mob as we disgorged onto the platform , at which point the jaundiced guard spoke his first and only words .
20 laker had his first 10-wicket haul in the visitors ' first innings , and Lock took 7 for 49 in the second .
21 Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ?
22 On pole after setting a lap record during the qualifying session , Mansell became the first rookie driver to win his first Indy grand prix since the late Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966 .
23 The 20-year-old threw his first victim to the ground and kicked her in the face .
24 We know Koresh started work because the computer disk containing his first chapter survived the fire .
25 Almost two years later , the memory of that wonderful day returned to help the 22-year-old Englishman claim his first victory on the PGA European Tour .
26 He dominated the tie-break 7–2 and after allowing seventh-seeded Chang to hold his first service game of the third set , Sampras went on an amazing burst , running off 11 games in a row to lead 5–0 in the fourth before Chang won another game .
27 Yet it is evident that the timing of the Act had been determined by Churchill 's desire to popularize his first budget and , with the rate of pension remaining static despite inflation , the continuing poverty of many elderly people merely testified to the inefficacy of such posturing in a climate of financial stringency .
28 There is also the village of Ackworth , where Geoff Boycott took his first faltering steps at the crease to become the greatest cricketer that the world has ever seen and a great Yorkshireman .
29 He began pony racing and as his father actively encouraged him , he naturally progressed to horses and by coincidence landed his first winner on his first ride — Final Assault on the Flat at Naas in March 1983 .
30 The 38-year-old Sheffield Wednesday player-manager made his first full appearance for 17 months in the 8-1 UEFA Cup rout of Spora Luxembourg in midweek .
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