Example sentences of "his [noun] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had dictated his resignation to the first secretary he encountered . |
| 2 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 3 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 4 | It originated probably with St Bernard in the late 1140s or early 1150s in his address to the first Cistercian pope , Eugenius III , whom he calls " vicar " and " vicar of Christ " , but it had only been employed domestically within papal circles before Innocent 's time . |
| 5 | He missed Aintree 's colour and clamour , the release of easing his mount to the first fence after the parade . |
| 6 | Perhaps over confident , his application to the first set seemed to lack the determination he had applied in their previous meetings and as the first set ebbed away 6–3 , Wilkinson found difficulty getting his game together in a slipping match . |
| 7 | His answer to the first was ‘ no ’ and to the other two ‘ yes ’ . |
| 8 | For the purpose of answering the second part of the question he should state that he is assuming that he is wrong in his answer to the first . |
| 9 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |