Example sentences of "[noun sg] of his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was through this initiative that Nick finally got to meet his great hero , James Cameron , and after the collapse of his first marriage , he married Cameron 's step-daughter , Sabeita . |
| 2 | Or did Wilson , plagued by his physical disabilities and frustrated in his political and industrial life after the collapse of his first efforts at organisation in 1894 , gradually become a different man ? |
| 3 | It is exemplified in the following extract from a letter addressed in April 1866 to my grandfather , Henry Cecil , on the loss of his first child , a daughter , aged four weeks : |
| 4 | He was given command of his first ship three years later and named the Queen 's Equerry in 1986 following the death of Major Hugh Lindsay in an avalanche at Klosters while skiing with the Prince of Wales . |
| 5 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 6 | In Example 21 , Franck gives an almost identical repeat of his first phrase ( bars 1 and 2 ) , with just enough change to satisfy a forward harmonic movement which is stronger than that in the Ravel . |
| 7 | No matter how long the lance master lectured him about truth to oneself , inner nobility and purity , the words seemed hollow in the light of his first remarks . |
| 8 | It also suggested that he would be permitted to remain as leader until the completion of his first term in October 1991 , and would possibly achieve a second two-year term . |
| 9 | Mrs Banham said : ‘ Stephen is going to miss the best part of his first and most important year of school due to illness with ear infections . ’ |
| 10 | Durkheim saw the centrality of the prison as largely brought about by the operation of the first part of his first law : prison was a milder penalty than capital and corporal punishments and so became adopted as collective sentiments became more sympathetic to the criminal 's suffering . |
| 11 | Concealed beneath the opaque wording about the " Hellenic will " was another attempt — as it proved , Nietzsche 's last attempt — to discuss some of the socio-political aspects of the Greek world as part of his first book . |
| 12 | Putting his left arm round Donald 's shoulder , he took advantage of his first relaxation from the spasm of pain , to raise the glass to his lips , push his head back and , as if he were administering medicine to Maisie , roll the fluid past the perfectly kept teeth . |
| 13 | Lawrence is settled at Middlesbrough and has been pleased with the progress of his first season . |
| 14 | General Robert Scott is still alive and has sent Dick a hand written description of his first aircraft on the back of a photograph he had of himself with his P-40 . |
| 15 | Merv Hughes hit an enormous six and Mark Taylor made 164 to become the first player to score 1,000 runs in the course of his first season of Tests , but Australia 's batsmen did not escape the day without damage from an attack weakened by injury to both its opening bowlers . |
| 16 | His children have never fully forgiven him and the scandal that surrounded the very public break-up of his first marriage has scarred everyone involved in The Doc 's love-life . |
| 17 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
| 18 | Three putts took him back to par , continuing the story of his first round in which he hit 16 greens in regulation but missed seven putts inside 8ft . |
| 19 | He took the opportunity of his first book after leaving No. 10 to state , ‘ I was not exaggerating when I called the 1974 Cabinet the most experienced and talented Cabinet this century , transcending even the Campbell-Bannerman Administration of 1905 . ’ |
| 20 | Tweed , Deputy Director of the SIS , stared out of the window of his first floor office at Park Crescent , London HQ of the Secret Service . |
| 21 | From the ordeal of his first marriage to the late happiness of the second , the book locks , at one level , into a recital of misfortunes and a medical record . |
| 22 | In an interview given soon after the publication of his first novel , he insisted : |
| 23 | Hardy always stressed that the publication of his first collection of poems in 1898 marked a return to his original love , poetry . |
| 24 | When the Civil War broke out , Taylor joined the King at Oxford , carrying with him the manuscript of his first book , Episcopacy Asserted . |
| 25 | Virtually the whole of the first half of his first volume was devoted by Clarkson to discussing individuals and intellectual and religious traditions whose contributions to antislavery converged in unity in the organisation of the committee of 1787 . |
| 26 | On 11 June 1787 he married Friedericke Kottewski ( the fate of his first wife is unknown ) . |
| 27 | Li Shai Tung woke , drenched in sweat , the dream of his first wife , Lin Yua and that dreadful night so clear that , for a moment , he thought the banging on the doors a part of it . |
| 28 | TWO YEARS to the day since Howard Kendall tied the knot with Everton for a second time , a forgotten child of his first managerial union with the Goodison club shone when he needed him most . |
| 29 | I also remember discussing with Bruce the plot of his first full-length novel , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ — a wartime story of the Cariboo Valley in British Columbia . |
| 30 | This has been a focus of his first year and will be of his second . |