Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] his first " in BNC.
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1 | He made his League debut against Arsenal at Hillsborough in November 1991 and scored his first goal for the club in the third round FA Cup victory over Preston . |
2 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
3 | He was ordained deacon in Chichester in 1850 and served his first curacy in Easebourne , where he studied the writings of the Christian Socialist movement , in particular those of Charles Kingsley [ q.v . ] . |
4 | Surtees started racing bikes in 1950 and had his first win at Brands Hatch on a Vincent in 1951 when only 17 . |
5 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
6 | Went solo in 1977 and had his first hit a year later with Fool If You Think It 's Over . |
7 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
8 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |