Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 2 | He meticulously prepared himself for his first meeting . |
| 3 | Six years later , in 1980 , he moved south of the Border to take on the role of TMcL 's UK managing partner and promptly landed himself in his first hot seat . |
| 4 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 5 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 6 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 7 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 8 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 9 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 10 | He did not know why and , in the absence of an obvious explanation , attributed it to his first ever professional encounter with a psychiatrist . |