Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] his first " in BNC.

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1 Joyce was no longer living with his first wife .
2 Lee is still looking for his first League goal and admitted : ‘ I 'd love to get it against Charlton . ’
3 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 .
4 He said mischievously of Saturday 's rival manager Ron Atkinson : ‘ Despite his spells with West Brom , Manchester United , Sheffield Wednesday and now Villa , he 's still waiting for his first League Championship .
5 Still waiting for his first goal since his £500,000 summer move from Rangers , Rideout has been unfavourably compared with the Scots striker who left Goodison for Oldham last year .
6 With the opposite number still waiting for his first save , Rhodes was in the thick of things again as he pushed a header from Dave Weir against the crossbar .
7 Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections .
8 A voter who gives a first-preference vote and a second-preference vote to Fianna Fail candidates and a third-preference vote to a Fine Gael candidate is really asking with his first two choices that Fianna Fail should win the election and with his third that Fine Gael should prevail .
9 Yet , despite being Britain 's only world championship claimant at that time , he was relatively unknown outside boxing circles and had boxed most of his important contests outside the UK , winning the European title in 1976 in Rome , then drawing in his first world title attempt in Berlin in 1977 , before finally taking the title in San Remo .
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