Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 31 | he 's still tied to his first wife . |
| 32 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 33 | If the whole business was so easily explained , why had she been so affected by his first mention of it ? |
| 34 | These epistemological questions are examined in his first book . |
| 35 | I 'm glad to hear that , Wilko has proved during his first 3 years that he is capable of getting the best out of players individually and as a team . |
| 36 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 37 | His extraordinary revenue came , in the nature of things , in irregular bursts , mostly concentrated in his first ten years . |
| 38 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 39 | These experiences are fictionalized in his first novel , The Crust on Its Uppers ( republished by Serpent 's Tail to coincide with the publication of The Hidden Files ) . |
| 40 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 41 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 42 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 43 | ‘ Just like arriving at any other golf club , ’ said Montgomerie abruptly when asked of his first trip up Magnolia Drive to the clubhouse . |
| 44 | Sharpe , a member of United 's triumvirate of wingers , emerged as a substitute for Kanchelskis , who had been asked to exploit the absence of Pearce , and almost scored with his first attack . |
| 45 | He says he will have time enough to relax and carouse when he 's had a smash hit with his first novel . |
| 46 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 47 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 48 | Zurbriggen , the Olympic downhill champion and World Cup super-giant titleholder , swept to his first victory since November 1988 in the ninth World Cup race of the current programme in 1min 37.39sec . |
| 49 | The author remembers the first time he was left with his first , brand-new child . |
| 50 | Having learned from his first assignment that the general effectively controlled the hostage situation in Beirut , Coleman now came to realize that , in a broader frame but in the same sense , Kenaan also controlled the nature and scope of narco-terrorism itself — ; or , at any rate , could do so when it suited President Assad 's purpose . |
| 51 | Louis had now taken in his first partner , Hyman Silverman . |
| 52 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |
| 53 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |
| 54 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 55 | Bob Wall , engaged in his first big transfer deal at Arsenal as Chapman 's assistant , takes up the story. : |
| 56 | He held the world heavyweight title until 1899 , when he was beaten in his first defence of the title by James J. Jeffries in eleven rounds . |
| 57 | His prose-poetry had tumbled into full prose , and he was now engaged on his first novel , under the title of Beauty At Close Quarters . |
| 58 | He was sent to his first school there . |
| 59 | It was a pity that he was not left with his aircraft , as he was put on standby as soon as we arrived at Takali , and killed on his first operation in Malta … ’ |
| 60 | Though outwardly quiet and unassuming , he had a steely determination and a passion for mountains fired by his first visit to Corsica with Mr. Stanley 's School party in 1964 . |