Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] his first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 2 | It is a it 's a name but I do n't know what his first name is . |
| 3 | David Brabham says his father has not got fond memories of Le mans because when he was driving it was wet and foggy … the weather was very bad … but David says he looks forward to it now because it is a classic event … he says its his first year with Jaguar at le mans |
| 4 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 5 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 6 | Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business . |
| 7 | The libraries that Hoggart remembers as giving him his first education in English literature acquired serious books of every kind . |
| 8 | The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention . |
| 9 | You can tell me his first name , though , ca n't you ? |
| 10 | A right-wing corner by the left-footed Preece was met so powerfully by James that the young full-back could be proud of the header which brought him his first goal of the season … |
| 11 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 12 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 13 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 14 | I think its his first time . |
| 15 | Gently — and a little inexpertly — he gave her his first love in return , and that joining of soul to soul and body to body convinced her that in love it is indeed better to give than to receive . |
| 16 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 17 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
| 18 | It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 19 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 20 | His new wife Fatmawati gave him his first son , Guntur , whose name means ‘ thunder ’ . |
| 21 | They gave him his first meal , of bread for the body and purifying salt for the immortal soul , and cheered as his tiny red face puckered at the taste and he yelled lustily . |
| 22 | Gungawatti , when frightened by a swarm of jungle bees , gave him his first ride on the back of a bolting elephant . |
| 23 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 24 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 25 | I gave him his first bath . |
| 26 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just his paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 27 | While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 . |
| 28 | Michael Caine 's cockney Alfie ( foreign to American ears ) won him his first nomination in 1966 , but he had to play an American to win at last , twenty years later , in Hannah and Her Sisters . |
| 29 | ‘ Hang around here at this time of night , and some sex-starved male might decide to make you his first prize . ’ |
| 30 | No , they just called him Gazza , his name is Gasgcoine nobody knows what his first name is . |