Example sentences of "[vb past] his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked round , somewhat disappointed his first resolution met no opposition . |
| 2 | Another of his specialities was plate-spinning — Maskelyne traced his first ambition to be a conjuror to his experience as a boy watching Antonio Blitz , a famous plate-spinner , perform . |
| 3 | Hywel Jeffreys ( Jeff Camnant ) described his first day underground : |
| 4 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 5 | Forty years later , in his biography The Sweeping Wind ( 1962 ) , he described his first impressions : ‘ a young red-headed man , very tall and slightly stooped , nervous , his face spotty red as if about to explode into a dermatosis … |
| 6 | His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture . |
| 7 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 8 | He was a protégé of Sir William Chambers , who saw to it that he worked in every artistic department , including that of interior decoration , before he designed his first house at the age of eighteen . |
| 9 | Yet he soon divorced his first wife , quite casually , to cement a treaty against his brother Carloman , and certainly paid little or no attention to orthodox Christian morality . |
| 10 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 11 | He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife . |
| 12 | He looked up and caught his first glimpse of Celia through the beads . |
| 13 | But now Hughie , a man who built his first craft at the old Whitehall shipyard in 1950 , believes everything is ebbing away from Whitby . |
| 14 | But actually he built his first engine , I think , for a quarry in |
| 15 | And when he built his first engine it was made out of erm iron and stuff and was extremely heavy . |
| 16 | Joe Bamford , who hailed from a distinguished Staffordshire agricultural family , built his first excavator after the war . |
| 17 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 18 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 19 | He approached his first term at Lincoln College ‘ fairly well & in exceedingly good temper … |
| 20 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 21 | Christo has cherished a vision of wrapping the Reichstag in military silver , flame-retardant fabric since 1971 , when he created his first studies for the project . |
| 22 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 23 | In the city of Cologne he visited his first night club . |
| 24 | Johnson even added his first try of the season to nine conversions and two penalties , with Richard Arnold and Graham Clark scoring hat-tricks and Mark White , Alastair Meadows , Dave Bennett , Paul Holdstook and Peter Walton also scoring . |
| 25 | As a teenager he dropped his first name , Paul , and used only his second name , Jackson . |
| 26 | Brian Ashmore says he suffered his first heart attack thirteen years ago and he 's been back into the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon five times since with related problems . |
| 27 | James Hunt , QC , for the defence , put it to nurse Geeson that Allitt had told her after Liam suffered his first attack but she had forgotten . |
| 28 | In 1908 , however , he suffered his first stroke . |
| 29 | Cliff , who scored his first chart hit 34 years ago , says he has no regrets about being single . |
| 30 | Norwich proceeded to stage a spirited rally and Seaman 's goal came under intense pressure before Norwich defender Butterworth scored his first goal of the season when he forced the ball home after Beckford 's shot had been blocked . |