Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been out on the West Coast where everything 's mellow and laid-back , ’ says Julian , when I ask for his first impressions of NYC . |
| 2 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
| 3 | More significant still , Cnut 's crown in the New Minster drawing is a lily crown , very similar to that which appears on his first Quatrefoil coin type , but with an additional arched bar spanning its centre . |
| 4 | POLICE were yesterday still waiting to interview a man who was badly burnt in a fire which swept through his first floor flat in the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 5 | Skipper , Derek Hall got them going with his first ever goal for the club , so no wonder he went on a victory run . |
| 6 | Scottish rider Niall Mackenzie retired after five laps when his Yamaha developed engine trouble , and mechanical problems also forced out Londoner Peter Graves , who qualified for his first grand prix , and Irishman Eddie Laycock . |
| 7 | But the student who goes to his first lecture without any idea at all of what he is to face is working quite inefficiently . |
| 8 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 9 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 10 | Midfielder who impressed in his first year at Elland Road making several reserve outings and being rewarded with a professional contract . |
| 11 | As such he is a natural verse-speaker , as we see from his first appearance ( I.ii.321ff. ) and from the soliloquy cursing Prospero during the storm ( II.ii.1–17 ) . |
| 12 | They reported in-depth information about his sex life that they gleaned from his first and current wives , their mothers , neighbours and any other informant . |
| 13 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 14 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 15 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 16 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
| 17 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 18 | These ethico-political concerns formed the basis of his early works on madness : as he announced in his first book , Mental Illness and Psychology ( 1954 ) : |
| 19 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 20 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 21 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 22 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 23 | They encroached upon him very early , leading to imaginative experiences very like those wild and rumbustious scenes he describes in his first novel . |
| 24 | Archie usually performed as a combative left-half for the Palace , but he was also occasionally drafted into the front line , to play as a makeshift centre-forward to most useful effect , because his considerable height gave him a distinct advantage in that department and he scored on his first two outings for us in the number nine shirt . |
| 25 | ‘ Onward , Christian soldiers ! ’ boomed my father , as he hammered in his first piton . |
| 26 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 28 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 29 | NIGEL MANSELL may be about to give Formula One a much-needed lift when he competes in his first Indycar race at the street circuit of Surfers ' Paradise in Queensland , Australia , on Sunday . |
| 30 | Andre Agassi 's stay in Key Biscayne was depressingly short as he lost in his first match to one of what seemed countless unheralded other Americans , Bryan Shelton . |