Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] his first " in BNC.

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1 It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world .
2 He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley .
3 It was at B and D in 1932 that he directed his first film , the Mayor 's Nest starring Sydney Howard .
4 Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there .
5 It was after his move to the Italian manufacturer in 1974 that he enjoyed his first Grand Prix victory , at Jarama , in the Ferrari 312 .
6 He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife .
7 Celtic farmed him out to Blantyre Celtic to toughen him up and it was in the killing fields of Blantyre that he won his first honour , a Scottish Junior cap .
8 As Niki said at the time , his Number One position ( an unofficial title , though Prost had made it clear to me , as to others , that he considered his first season at McLaren to be very much a learning process ) was under threat , and that was not a situation Niki appreciated .
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