Example sentences of "his [noun] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his speeches of the first two books Satan shows a tremendous vigour , a responsibility to his followers , an impenetrable spirit , heroic determination never to be weak and inactive and an attractive charm and sophistication in his poetic and commanding words . |
| 2 | His other books included his Life of the first Marquess of Ripon ( 1921 ) . |
| 3 | His invention of the first computer in the world to possess a memory has already been mentioned , but his work also included radar during the War and new types of electric motor later . |
| 4 | His recording of the First Piano Concerto is sparklingly assured — crisply articulated but with enough sensitivity to convey the inevitable bitter-sweet character of the slow movement . |
| 5 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 6 | For example , Jan Watt bases his analysis of the first paragraph of Henry James 's The Ambassadors on five features : ( 1 ) non-transitive verbs ; ( 2 ) abstract nouns ; ( 3 ) the word that ; ( 4 ) elegant variation ; ( 5 ) delayed specification of referents . |
| 7 | ( One of the originators once told me that his memory of the first few weeks of the organization was of people literally waiting in turn to answer the phone every time it rang . ) |
| 8 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 9 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 10 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |