Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , actually , I 'd ordered his first I said , but I thought I 'd treat you . |
| 2 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
| 3 | For men like Stan Weatherall , whom we left experiencing his first long journey by canoe , this reorganisation swept away the frustrations of the summer of 1941 . |
| 4 | Moses was 40 when he tried to strike his first blow for freedom ( 2:11–12 ) , which ended in disaster . |
| 5 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |
| 6 | Boadicea raised her goblet , the hero flashed past , he 'd survived his first real bumpy ride . |
| 7 | After a switch to real race machinery , Bradl soon became known as a daring , go-for-broke rider and by 1987 he 'd taken his first European championship win and second overall in the series . |
| 8 | It was evident from the young man 's circumspect excitement that he thought he 'd got his first genuine schizophrenic hypochondriac . |
| 9 | As a kid , Rush 's first love was Everton — yet when he paid to watch his first League game it was , fittingly , Spurs v Liverpool at White Hart Lane . |
| 10 | In 1895 he began to build his first full-size glider , the Bat ; it had pronounced dihedral , and was fitted with a rudder but no tailplane . |
| 11 | When he decided to reform his first and misguided collecting habits , Barnes looked up both of them for advice . |
| 12 | Both men had cars capable of winning the world title but that honour went to the Argentinian , while Moss had to be content with the runner-up position although he did record his first Grand Prix victory at Aintree in 1955 . |
| 13 | A seven-iron and one putt later he had recorded his first birdie of the day . |
| 14 | Of these the most important was Hartley , after whom he had named his first son . |
| 15 | His greatest idea came after he had written his first works and was doing an index for a book : this was to give a name composed of two words , a generic name and a specific or trivial one , to each species . |
| 16 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 17 | Before long , he had made his first links with staff in the bank 's Florida and Panama branches . |
| 18 | He had made his first apport as a teenager . |
| 19 | He had seen his first Rottweiler in the UK whilst visiting a police dog training centre and he was greatly impressed with his working ability . |
| 20 | The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter . |
| 21 | He died a year ago , ’ said Coffin shortly ; he had liked his first boss . |
| 22 | He had taken his first steps forward in English politics by denouncing the emphasis on German politics ; he was able to shift to a position the King found acceptable by adopting the policy he later described by saying ‘ America was conquered in Germany ’ , and this approach suited Britain 's position very well . |
| 23 | He had published his first book of poetry , Here And Now , in 1946 ; his second , Now Is The Place , in 1948 — shortly before Leonard chanced on Lorca 's poetry . |
| 24 | He had read his first book , Soho Nights , and praised it knowledgeably . |
| 25 | He paused to take his first mouthful of fish . |