Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 2 | Dustin was given his first chance to be in pictures . |
| 3 | The moment she had settled to this , Peter was given his first parish , a little parish in a country town to the south of Bristol . |
| 4 | Raising her eyes to Rozanov , she asked in lighter tones how he was enjoying his first visit to England . |
| 5 | Next it was Hunt 's turn to be confused by the Australian Warwick Brown , who was driving his first race and who , practically without gears , was going as near zero as possible in the middle of the chicane . |
| 6 | Allen Ginsberg was writing his first major work Howl that summer in the Village . |
| 7 | This was Silver , a nephew of the Threarah , who was serving his first month in the Owsla . |
| 8 | The current world champion , Blyth Tait , was paying his first visit to Poplar Park and was very satisfied with the performances of his trio , Messiah , Ricochet and Tempo . |
| 9 | They made a direct appeal to Mr Clarke as he was paying his first visit to a police station since taking over at the Home Office . |
| 10 | Don Cribb from Systems and Equipment Engineering Department , was attempting his first London Marathon . |
| 11 | He was handed his first full England cap against France in February and shut out Eric Cantona so comprehensively that he held his place for the European Championship finals . |
| 12 | Russell 's loss was Marcus Gorman 's gain , as the 28-year-old stockbroker was riding his first ever winner . |
| 13 | He was written about enthusiastically in the New York Times , offered a recording contract by CBS Records , and by the end of that year was cutting his first album . |
| 14 | Hagley led to the summit of Carnedd Dafydd , reaching it in 47 minutes 30 seconds , and he never once surrendered his lead despite a spirited challenge from Paul Jenkinson , who was running his first fell race . |
| 15 | Kinane , who was having his first Arc ride , said : ‘ I had quickened past Behera when Carroll House hung across and it did n't affect the result . |
| 16 | Others were on the edge of the storm and Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had a wild ride with young Sub-Lieutenant White , who was having his first introduction to canoe reconnaissance . |
| 17 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 18 | Across the globe in that year , 1962 , 21-year old Richard Neville was taking his first step into journalism , editing the University of New South Wales student paper , Tharunka . |
| 19 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 20 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 21 | Despite all his international experience with England and the Lions , he will be out there tomorrow as if he was winning his first cap and that 's a priceless commodity . |
| 22 | Mr Wright , a widower with one son and two grandchildren , was making his first operational parachute drop when he bailed out of an aircraft over Arnhem in September 1944 . |
| 23 | Now , however , Nietzsche was making his first serious attempt to put into practice the " wholeness " he aspired to . |
| 24 | The leader , with four-under par was Jim Thorpe , a comparatively unknown black professional , who had made several unsuccessful attempts to qualify for the Championship and was making his first appearance . |
| 25 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 26 | The most cheerful remarks seemed to have been made about the health of Michael Heseltine , who was making his first appearance at the cabinet since his heart attack . |
| 27 | And now he was to have his first big test as editor at a gathering at an old Big Flame haunt , the Beechwood conference centre near Leeds , a worker 's co-operative , complete with wholefood canteen . |
| 28 | Lyndon Hooper another Canadian from the same backwater as was playing his first full game for Birmingham . |
| 29 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 30 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |