Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean his first touch is decent he 's gone past there 's a suggestion I think that he he could have gone down . |
| 2 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 3 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
| 4 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 5 | He 'd suggested she use his first name and she would , even if there was an unwelcome hint of intimacy in it . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it permitted for me to call you Cara ? ’ he enquired , having just asked that she use his first name . |
| 7 | We have also encouraged the new secretary-general to reform the secretariat and we applaud his first achievements in that area . |
| 8 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |
| 9 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 10 | Fell in love with the Duke of Athens ’ sweet little widow , and tried to get rid of the Patriarch of Constantinople when he would n't let him divorce his first wife . |
| 11 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you and Cindy plan — ’ but Ruth was coming into the room with a tray , setting it down on his desk , handing one of the white bone china cups with the delicate gold rim to Cashman , watching him take his first appreciative sip . |
| 13 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 14 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 15 | He made his first UK appearance last month , guest-starring at the Titiyo show at London 's Subterania . |
| 16 | After the 1979 season , Dave caddied for Michael King and Manuel Calero , then he made his first bid for the bag of Sandy Lyle . |
| 17 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 18 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 19 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 20 | Then , the day before Latowa 's death , he made his first contact with ‘ Charlie ’ . |
| 21 | He made his first important political appearance at the Socialist Congress in Tours in December 1920 . |
| 22 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |
| 23 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 24 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 25 | He made his first visit to Vesuvius in 1831 , and published Sketches of Vesuvius , with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions in 1832 . |
| 26 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 27 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 28 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 29 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 30 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |