Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] his first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 2 | ‘ He goes for his first walk at 10am . |
| 3 | ITALY 'S La Scala opera house threatened yesterday to take ‘ extreme ’ action against rowdy Milan audiences after Luciano Pavarotti , left , was heckled during his first performance there in five years . |
| 4 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 5 | He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves ! |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Momentarily glimpsed would be nineteen-year-old Richard Dreyfuss appearing in his first movie as a Berkeley student , with one line : ‘ Shall I get the cops ? |
| 9 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 10 | He ordered a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich in the cafe a few doors down and sank his weary limbs down to wait , revelling in his first cigarette of the day . |
| 11 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 12 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 13 | Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series . |
| 14 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 15 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 16 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 17 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 18 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Lee is still looking for his first League goal and admitted : ‘ I 'd love to get it against Charlton . ’ |
| 21 | Carson opens up on Gipsy Fiddler in the high speed five furlong dash and Gispy Fiddler 's trainer Jonjo O'Neill is looking for his first win of the season . |
| 22 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 23 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 24 | The Sonata is imaginatively coupled with Britten 's , written after his first meeting with Shostakovich in 1961 . |
| 25 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 26 | Joyce was no longer living with his first wife . |
| 27 | They encroached upon him very early , leading to imaginative experiences very like those wild and rumbustious scenes he describes in his first novel . |
| 28 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 29 | ( ‘ Julian ’ and the hyphenated surname were adopted before his first marriage . ) |
| 30 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |