Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] his first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolfgang intended to write an opera for Paris , but Leopold warned him to study the national taste first , since his reputation would hang on his first piece . |
| 2 | Now Owers , a frustrated spectator in Sunderland 's last six FA Cup-ties , believes he can win back his first team place before the final on May 9 . |
| 3 | MAKE up with Macaulay Culkin and you could be checking out his first screen kiss . |
| 4 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
| 5 | Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons . |
| 6 | A ROMAN Catholic priest vowed yesterday to continue his fight to bring a private prosecution for murder against the doctor involved in the Tony Bland case , even though magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons . |
| 7 | William Golding , the oldest of the new novelists , has told how his first novel emerged from reflecting , as so many in the 1940s reflected , how readily Hitler and his National Socialists had revived barbarism in our times , and in a modern and advanced industrial state . |
| 8 | With Rhianon she made up his first fan-club : but even so — as with all the others I talked to who came from Richard 's past — there was no ‘ soft soap ’ : sadness because he was gone — much of that — but no false sentiment . |
| 9 | Large new pieces in that medium — including one gigantic rigid construction at Wooster Street — make up his first show at Gagosian ( until 12 June ) . |
| 10 | But the Haig Avenue boss is refusing to take anything for granted as he lines up his first game as a manager in the first round proper . |
| 11 | Donegall 's Tom Irvine takes on his first role in international management with the coaching duties being undertaken by Conor Sheridan from Marian . |
| 12 | And so Robert Titford , Master Mariner , took over his first command . |
| 13 | With his wife Sheila , whom he had married during his doctoral studies , the new Dr Fleischmann took up his first post at King 's College , University of Durham , in north-east England . |
| 14 | NORTH-EAST haulage contractor Nigel Shield had good excuse to celebrate recently when he notched up his first victory on an international rally . |
| 15 | He took out his first patent at the age of twenty-four , after inventing a portable alarm to attach to watches and clocks . |
| 16 | At sixteen , he put together his first group and , with a cash present from his grandfather , put out a record of his own songs . |
| 17 | Such was his hurry to get into the clubhouse from the 18th green that he was almost bowling people over in his haste and later he admitted to feeling ‘ very down ’ , still trying to get over his first round of 76 when ‘ everything went wrong ’ . |
| 18 | When Bill was setting up his first home , he used to attend auction sales , looking for reasonably priced furniture . |
| 19 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 20 | When Seebohm Rowntree carried out his first study of poverty in York in 1899 , he found that around I per cent of the poor were old people , largely because most working-class people worked until they died , or were incarcerated in the workhouse . |
| 21 | But Fisher , a notoriously slow starter who never seems to get fully into his stride until the summer , clocked up his first win of the year on the re-scheduled Rally of the Lakes last weekend and in the process jumped to the top of the Tarmac table . |
| 22 | Jordan says he picked up his first guitar when he was four years old . |
| 23 | Morgan , hammered down 22 aces , including one to bring up his first match point after more than two hours , which he coolly converted with a bludgeoning service winner . |