Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 4 | If the whole business was so easily explained , why had she been so affected by his first mention of it ? |
| 5 | Joyce was no longer living with his first wife . |
| 6 | Given the standard-setting qualities of the team 's FW15 car , which will make its racing debut at Kyalami in 12 weeks , there is every chance Hill may not only win his first race with the Didcot team but also go on to challenge for his first title . |
| 7 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 8 | Lee is still looking for his first League goal and admitted : ‘ I 'd love to get it against Charlton . ’ |
| 9 | Well we understand that they 're going to Paul up the front and of course is still looking for his first goal of the season . |
| 10 | He said mischievously of Saturday 's rival manager Ron Atkinson : ‘ Despite his spells with West Brom , Manchester United , Sheffield Wednesday and now Villa , he 's still waiting for his first League Championship . |
| 11 | Still waiting for his first goal since his £500,000 summer move from Rangers , Rideout has been unfavourably compared with the Scots striker who left Goodison for Oldham last year . |
| 12 | With the opposite number still waiting for his first save , Rhodes was in the thick of things again as he pushed a header from Dave Weir against the crossbar . |
| 13 | he 's still tied to his first wife . |
| 14 | Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections . |
| 15 | His extraordinary revenue came , in the nature of things , in irregular bursts , mostly concentrated in his first ten years . |
| 16 | A voter who gives a first-preference vote and a second-preference vote to Fianna Fail candidates and a third-preference vote to a Fine Gael candidate is really asking with his first two choices that Fianna Fail should win the election and with his third that Fine Gael should prevail . |
| 17 | Louis had now taken in his first partner , Hyman Silverman . |
| 18 | His prose-poetry had tumbled into full prose , and he was now engaged on his first novel , under the title of Beauty At Close Quarters . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |
| 20 | You know , I thought he was about fifty odd , but what I must mention Jane , must n't forget in his first race in the three o'clock , he came last on Ruddy Cheek . |
| 21 | Yet , despite being Britain 's only world championship claimant at that time , he was relatively unknown outside boxing circles and had boxed most of his important contests outside the UK , winning the European title in 1976 in Rome , then drawing in his first world title attempt in Berlin in 1977 , before finally taking the title in San Remo . |
| 22 | Cantona had a getting-to-know-you session on the golf course with the rest of the United party at the weekend , then went into his first work-out with them at Estoril 's ground yesterday . |
| 23 | Sharpe , a member of United 's triumvirate of wingers , emerged as a substitute for Kanchelskis , who had been asked to exploit the absence of Pearce , and almost scored with his first attack . |
| 24 | He then returns to his first mate , the primary female , whose eggs are by now just hatching , and helps her raise this brood . |