Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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1 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
2 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
3 | Secure in the backing of an army corps and a party in Madrid the king refused to recognize the authority of the Regency ; on 4 May he published his first decree declaring the work of the Cortes null and void and adopting a modification of the Persian programme . |
4 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
5 | It was his grandparents he spent his first Christmas with . |
6 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
7 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
8 | As a teenager he dropped his first name , Paul , and used only his second name , Jackson . |
9 | In the city of Cologne he visited his first night club . |
10 | With poetic licence he described their first meeting : |
11 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |
12 | When he came off the line he smiled his first genuine smile in Edward 's presence . |
13 | Sick Sick Sick he called his first collection and subtitled it ‘ A Guide to Non-Confident Living ’ . |
14 | Emil explained to me that on this trip the linen , cutlery and glasses had been provided by the caterers , and without more ado he showed me first , where to find everything and second , how to set a table . |
15 | In Edinburgh he published his first pamphlet , Considerations on the Propriety of Establishing a Colony on one of the Sandwich Islands , in 1816 . |
16 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
17 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
18 | On 27 September of the same year he published his first book , Galfredus Petrus , Opus sane de deorum dearumque gentilium genealogia ( STC 19816.5 ) , from his new premises near the conduit in Fleet Street , where his printing-house remained for the rest of his life . |
19 | By January Waites was practising his putting , in April he walked his first 18 holes over his own club at Hollinwell and in May he played his first round , shooting a 78 . |
20 | I remember clearly the first time he played our first single . |