Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 32 | It started with his first kick , and keeping the machine as quiet as possible until clear of the village , he set off for Berkeley . |
| 33 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 34 | And now , for the first time , he thought that he could smell the North Sea , that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays , of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems , of his aunt 's tall figure at his side , binoculars round her neck , striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds . |
| 35 | The chief superintendent for the area was a firm believer in community policing , and he put as his first priority the prevention of public disorder . |
| 36 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 37 | Simmons dispossessed Meek from the restart and , as he did with his first goal , secured his hat trick by scoring from the centre spot . |
| 38 | ‘ I wish I could stay out there until dark , ’ he said after his first round . |
| 39 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |
| 40 | ‘ It is the most urgent task for the cabinet to restore public trust in politics , ’ he said in his first important policy speech since taking office . |
| 41 | ‘ I am Tick , the deformed coachman , ’ he said in his First Witch voice ( ‘ Macabre in the extreme' — Plays and Players ) . |
| 42 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |