Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence of Pater — which lies beneath Edward 's undergraduate article on the ‘ Frontiers of English Prose ’ with its carefully argued refusal to draw distinctions between prose and poetry — developed during his first non-collegiate year at Oxford . |
| 2 | ITALY 'S La Scala opera house threatened yesterday to take ‘ extreme ’ action against rowdy Milan audiences after Luciano Pavarotti , left , was heckled during his first performance there in five years . |
| 3 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 4 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 5 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 6 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 7 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 8 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 9 | The Sonata is imaginatively coupled with Britten 's , written after his first meeting with Shostakovich in 1961 . |
| 10 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Julian ’ and the hyphenated surname were adopted before his first marriage . ) |
| 12 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 13 | Tufnell took nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs , as Sri Lanka moved smoothly to 140 for one in reply . |
| 14 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 15 | There is little argument that , other than by the Augusta book , Tom Kite — the world 's all-time leading money winner , twice runner-up in the Masters , with only two cuts missed since his first appearance in 1976 , one of them last year — should have been in . |
| 16 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 17 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 18 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 19 | He had been defeated at his first attempt in 1685 , and in 1689 petitioned the Commons against Tory violence at the hustings . |
| 20 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 21 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 22 | Bute died at Cardiff Castle 18 March 1848 and was buried alongside his first wife at Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . |
| 23 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 24 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 25 | A pretty view of St Mark 's Cathedral by Sickert ( lot 16 , est. £30,000–40,000 ) , one of several versions dating from 1901 , was bought by Browse and Darby at the low estimate ( $45,900 ) , and Marlborough bought Stephen Conroy 's ‘ Kerngrove ’ ( lot 122 , est. £18,000–25,000 ) , a large figure painting shown in his first exhibition in 1989 , on behalf of a client . |
| 26 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 27 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 28 | A headhunter for ten years , Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client , which speaks volumes . |
| 29 | He was cautioned after his first offence when he was 13 . |
| 30 | Richards fell on 70 but Best , on his home ground , soldiered on and was rewarded with his first Test century , going on to 164 . |