Example sentences of "his [noun] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 2 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 3 | He put his foot on the first step and paused , listening . ’ |
| 4 | His writing-room on the first floor contains an unprepossessing table and a sideboard , on which sit his word-processor and printer . |
| 5 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |
| 6 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 7 | Wycliffe left his car on the first car park he came to and walked . |
| 8 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 9 | And it was an honour in both senses , for , like his counterpart on the first tee at the Dunluce course — qualifiers play both championship . |
| 10 | Ninety-six per cent of the voters followed his lead on the first question and two-thirds on the second . |
| 11 | Hope bowed more elegantly , muttered the line about being her servant but concentrated all his will on the first look direct . |
| 12 | John Simpson , who has complained about pressure from officials of both parties is also under fire for his report on the first John Major ‘ Val Doonican ’ rally , in which he suggested there was a tame audience and that Mr Major was no great orator . |
| 13 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 14 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 15 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |