Example sentences of "[noun sg] with his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Rennie earned Birmingham their fourth win on the trot with his first goal for the club . |
| 2 | Popular Welsh jockey Tim Rooney expects to resume at the Llandeilo Farmers after being out of action since a fall with his first ride of the season . |
| 3 | Whelan came on for Rocky , and hit the post with his first touch , after Macca had made a lovely run and cut-back . |
| 4 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 5 | Throughout his days at Chelsea , Gallacher had been contesting a long and painful divorce case with his first wife . |
| 6 | ‘ in his interaction with his first subject , he is emitting a myriad of unprogrammed and unintended cues in the visual and auditory channels . |
| 7 | this was a game that Oxford just could n't afford to lose … they played it right … kept the defence tight … looked for the break … the opening up front … the hero was a local lad Mark Druce who celebrated his home debut with his first goal … he used his head in more ways than one … |
| 8 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |
| 9 | Gallagher spared the Linnets from their 10th defeat of the season with his first Runcorn goal from beneath the bar . |
| 10 | He was anxious to make the right choice with his first American movie , and Lemmon was his favourite actor . |
| 11 | Central defender Gallagher , a recent signing from West Cheshire League soccer , capped an outstanding performance with his first goal for his new club and left sidelined player boss John Carroll with an unenviable selection problem . |
| 12 | EDDIE Irvine moved into second place in the All-Japan Formula 3000 championship with his first victory of the season at Suzuka yesterday . |
| 13 | If ever a politician lost his audience with his first sentence it was Meacher . |
| 14 | Four years ago , when Ian Botham returned from suspension and took a wicket with his first ball , Gooch trotted up from slip and asked him , ‘ Who writes your scripts ? ’ |
| 15 | On Hird 's death 10 years later , Cutts took over the list , and demonstrated his own publishing flair with his first best-seller , A J Russell 's For Sinners Only . |