Example sentences of "[prep] his first [noun] in office " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout his first term in office there was a series of battles between his political appointees and career bureaucrats . |
| 2 | From his first days in office , George Shultz had a different view . |
| 3 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 4 | That general attitude of the South 's is said to have been the most striking impression retained by Ripa di Meana , the EC environment commissioner , from talks during his first year in office ( 1989 ) with Third World ministers and officials . |
| 5 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |