Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [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 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 .
3 One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce .
4 Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP .
8 He did not know why and , in the absence of an obvious explanation , attributed it to his first ever professional encounter with a psychiatrist .
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