Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score . |
| 2 | Bush too was being realistic when he made his move to stage her first live concerts . |
| 3 | Naas Botha and his team play their first international in England since 1969 — and it could be their last in a long while . |
| 4 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 5 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |
| 6 | At the beginning of January Frank travelled to England with his father to start his first term at Rowden . |
| 7 | Sweeping down the long hill , past a blackened church with its sooty gravestones among the trees , Stanley and his passengers got their first sight of the problem . |
| 8 | A FORMER schoolteacher who decided to turn his back on his profession to follow his first love of painting is the latest winner of the Menter y Mis ( Venture of the Month ) award . |
| 9 | Instead , he left behind a potent series of myths — the rock ‘ n ’ roll rebel , the sensitive poet , the sexual athlete , the Lizard King — and a body of work that would influence musicians who had n't even been born when their hero was buried and his gravestone gained its first layer of graffiti in Pére Lachaise cemetery . |
| 10 | ‘ Jaz ’ laughed and ‘ accidentally ’ trod on my foot as he made his way to take his first throw . |
| 11 | And yet the process that produces that hoppy , hearty , malty , mellow flavour , that dark ruby gleam and smooth rich creamy head has hardly changed at all since Arthur rolled up his sleeves to mash his first brew . |
| 12 | But here his deductions encountered their first contradiction . |