Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
3 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
6 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
7 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
8 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
9 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
10 | ‘ Onward , Christian soldiers ! ’ boomed my father , as he hammered in his first piton . |
11 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
12 | VINNIE Jones returned for his first match of the season and celebrated his comeback after injury with the goal which earned Wimbledon a point . |
13 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
14 | FS ( 21 ) knocked in his first goal for the seniors and addressed the other contenders for the single forward role : I will have a go for the single place up front and i would like to try it vs Costa Rica . |
15 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
16 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
17 | These ethico-political concerns formed the basis of his early works on madness : as he announced in his first book , Mental Illness and Psychology ( 1954 ) : |
18 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
19 | It started with his first kick , and keeping the machine as quiet as possible until clear of the village , he set off for Berkeley . |
20 | The general view was that this was a slip of the tongue for ‘ imports ’ , but Baldwin when questioned persisted in his first statement . |
21 | Andre Agassi 's stay in Key Biscayne was depressingly short as he lost in his first match to one of what seemed countless unheralded other Americans , Bryan Shelton . |
22 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
23 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
24 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
25 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
26 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
27 | Alan 's father died during his first year at Breakspear , leaving him a very wealthy young man . |
28 | Cantona had a getting-to-know-you session on the golf course with the rest of the United party at the weekend , then went into his first work-out with them at Estoril 's ground yesterday . |
29 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
30 | Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble . |