Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ciaran Fitzgerald brought in Rob Saunders , not only for his first cap but as captain in that Championship last season . |
| 2 | Uhmm , I 'm not sure I share peoples convictions that Strachan will be a good manager for Leeds … especially as his first managerial job . |
| 3 | Late in life , Britten thought better of his first operatic venture but , as the time , it made him determined to escape from Auden 's artistic and personal domination . |
| 4 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 5 | So in his first inaugural address ( March 1933 ) he asked Congress for " broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency " . |
| 6 | THE Prime Minister was flying to Washington tonight for his first White House meeting with President Clinton — amid claims that the traditional special relationship between Britain and the US may be cooling . |
| 7 | There was little debate about the penalty , which Saunders converted comfortably for his first goal in nine matches . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After a routine check just after his first birthday we were told that Cameron is quite normal . |
| 10 | Montag returns home just after his first meeting with Clarisse to discover his wife has taken an overdose of sleeping tablets . |
| 11 | Soon after his first brush with ravens he had seen buzzards like Woil in the distance . |
| 12 | By moving away from his first mate , the male prevents the female from assessing his true status until it is too late for her to do anything about it . |
| 13 | And young Gareth Davies was a whisker away from his first goal . |
| 14 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 15 | Friends drove him away to his first night of freedom in twenty months . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm playing for the fun I can get out of it for myself , and not for them , ’ said the five-times Wimbledon champion after a 7–5 , 6–2 defeat by Frenchman Olivier Delaitre in the Nice Open yesterday in his first relevant match of this year 's comeback . |
| 18 | Howard laughs more in his first few weeks on Harry 's group than he has ever laughed in his life before . |
| 19 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 20 | Wilson , unlike Carter , sufficiently over-came his lack of sympathy with the system to compile an impressive record of legislative achievement early in his first term . |
| 21 | IT 'S hard to believe that Damon Hill is still in his first full season of Formula One . |
| 22 | Also in his first year at Cheltenham , a copy of a poem by Gregory Corso came into his hands . |
| 23 | He announced his credo unashamedly in his first editorial : ‘ We believe we are filling a publishing need only slightly less important than the one just taken care of by the Kinsey Report . ’ |
| 24 | Austrian Gerhard Berger was sixth in a Ferrari , also on his first outing after returning to the team , having stolen through on the penultimate lap . |
| 25 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 26 | He did not want to travel far on his first journey ; he would leave the darker , more mysterious corridors until later when he had built up enough courage . |
| 27 | BILL Clinton will fly to Washington today for his first post-election meeting with outgoing president George Bush . |
| 28 | THE new Lord Mayor of Dublin , Tomas MacGiolla of the Workers ' Party , arrived in Northern Ireland today for his first visit since taking up office . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dick Hansen poses alongside his Kittyhawk immediately after his first solo in her . |