Example sentences of "[prep] his first [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkinson was accused of being a ‘ cheat ’ by Bristol goalkeeper Brian Parkin after his first goal in an exciting second-half comeback . |
| 2 | Dick Hansen poses alongside his Kittyhawk immediately after his first solo in her . |
| 3 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 4 | ‘ On the first stage of his first rally in an Astra he was 19 seconds faster than anyone else . |
| 5 | GRAEME SOUNESS was one week short of his first anniversary in charge of Liverpool when the stresses and strains of football management took their heavy toll . |
| 6 | The words drew on his memory of a secret meeting he had gone to at the end of his first year in Glasgow . |
| 7 | It was a sweet way for Crosby to celebrate the end of his first year in the Sunderland hot seat . |
| 8 | Venezuelans elected Mr Perez in 1988 with fond memories of his first presidency in the 1970s , a golden era to which he promised a return . |
| 9 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 10 | Before he can set out the book reaches a savage climax as a night bivouac comes under heavy bombardment with rockets and mortars : the violence , noise and confusion are captured , as is the terrifying helplessness which contrasts with the circumstances of his first wound in action during an armoured charge under gunfire . |
| 11 | Graham Chapman , who died on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of his first appearance in the show which made his reputation , travelled along ( and to a certain extent pioneered ) that now orthodox route to celebrity . |
| 12 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
| 13 | It also suggested that he would be permitted to remain as leader until the completion of his first term in October 1991 , and would possibly achieve a second two-year term . |
| 14 | By the time of his first visit in 1779 , there had been a county gaol in the town for over two centuries but although the building he visited was only thirty-three years old he was very critical of the facilities it provided . |
| 15 | Three putts took him back to par , continuing the story of his first round in which he hit 16 greens in regulation but missed seven putts inside 8ft . |
| 16 | It became more difficult with the birth of his first son in 1990 . |
| 17 | Throughout his first term in office there was a series of battles between his political appointees and career bureaucrats . |
| 18 | And Liberty , which provided Fornasetti with his first outlet in Britain thirty years ago , is staging a selling exhibition in furnishings department from October 2 to November 6 . |
| 19 | So it will be back to work on the Algarve this week when Payne bids to win the Portuguese Open , a tournament that provided Montgomerie with his first success in 1989 . |
| 20 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 21 | Mid-season found him second in the national averages , and following match figures of 7 for 61 against Warwickshire , team-mate John Morris wondered whether Bishop could ever have bowled with more controlled hostility than in his first spell in the first innings . |
| 22 | Little , 38 , an Aston Villa and England player , was sacked by Wolves in his first spell in football management , as caretaker manager at Molineux in 1986 . |
| 23 | All prize giving afterwards in ‘ 93 ’ the new Vice-President of IBOA , Mr. Ken Doyle [ in his first function in his new capacity ] praised the efficiency and professionalism of the way and the IBOA League was run and thanked everybody for participating . |
| 24 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 25 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 26 | A new Birmingham MP in his first year in the House , Neville Chamberlain , was appointed Chairman ( Cherry , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Temple , 19 , in his first year in the ABA and who had been working in Fawcett 's butchers shop since 5.30 in the morning was over the moon with his hard earned win over Wales 's Barry Jones . |
| 28 | Steven Hodgson , in his first year in the championships , stopped his opponent in the third round , and Craig Wake had a walkover . |
| 29 | Peter tells in his first apistle in chapter one , in verse twenty three , for you have been born again , not of seed which is perishable , but imperishable , that is through the living and abiding word of God . |
| 30 | Yes , wh in his first papers in hysteria , he did n't call repression repression , he used another term . |