Example sentences of "he [verb] his first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you and Cindy plan — ’ but Ruth was coming into the room with a tray , setting it down on his desk , handing one of the white bone china cups with the delicate gold rim to Cashman , watching him take his first appreciative sip . |
| 2 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 5 | He made his first important political appearance at the Socialist Congress in Tours in December 1920 . |
| 6 | The ink was scarcely dry on the takeover agreement when he made his first inept move against me … |
| 7 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 8 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 9 | In 1804 he produced his first popular set of aquatints , Sixty Views of the Lakes . |
| 10 | In 1829 he produced his first coloured print , ‘ Butterflies ’ , and achieved popular acclaim in 1834 with the coloured plates for Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 12 | The problem here was not the distance , only 28 miles [ 45 km ] , but the intervening ridge of high ground , which rose to a height of 2500 feet [ 760 m ] , and the River Spey , across which he built his first double-arched bridge , 180 feet [ 55 m ] long ; another four single-arch bridges were required elsewhere on the route . |
| 13 | Returning to become a partner in his father 's business , he designed his first recorded work , Read Hall near Whalley , Lancashire , in 1818 at the age of twenty-one and quickly appears to have become the principal architect member of the firm , evidently leaving his father to concentrate on the production of marble chimney-pieces and funerary monuments , which were his speciality . |
| 14 | But he was close on 34 when , in 1951 , he played his first full season for Surrey under M R Barton . |
| 15 | Three years later he received his first major commission , to decorate Bodley 's new church of St John , Tue Brook , Liverpool . |
| 16 | ‘ I am very pleased to be sitting here , ’ he told his first organized Grand Prix press conference in Japan . |
| 17 | He scored his first senior hat-trick and stole the thunder of Ian Wright , who was anxious — too anxious , said Mr Graham — to impress against his former team-mates . |
| 18 | BOY wonder Nicholas MacMahon enters a brave new world as he takes his first tentative taps on a computer keyboard . |
| 19 | He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor . |
| 20 | He took his first permanent job with Metropolitan Vickers now part of GEC , broadly working in personnel , overseas recruitment and welfare before joining the University of Stirling in October 1969 as Careers and Appointments Officer . |
| 21 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 22 | And a moment later any extraneous thoughts were driven from his mind — for he saw his first alien prisoner : a mottled green froglike biped of lustrous hue , being frogmarched in chains . |
| 23 | When he came off the line he smiled his first genuine smile in Edward 's presence . |
| 24 | He won his first round match in the United States Open , putting Flushing Meadow into a party mood as he whipped Brazilian Jaime Oncins 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-3 . |
| 25 | He won his first Scottish cap in 1965 against Spain by which time he was known as ‘ the prince of nigglers ’ , and one of the most unruly players in the professional game . |
| 26 | In 1944 he won his first starring role on screen in A Canterbury Tale , directed by Michael Powell . |
| 27 | Cheltenham 's Tony Allcock has taken to grass like a duck to water this week … he won his first national title on the green stuff in the Ulster Games singles . |
| 28 | On the one hand , he performed his first Indian act of civil disobedience in support of the oppressed indigo workers of Champaran ; on the other hand , he urged Indians to support the British war effort , even engaging in active recruiting in 1918 . |
| 29 | From there he had his first real glimpse of the Lake District and fell in love with the area about a quarter of which was in Lancashire until 1974 . |
| 30 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |