Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His repeats in the first movements may seem more generous than convincing ( in the B flat minor the composer 's imperiously thrusting argument is surely weakened by backtracking ) yet , again , Andsnes provides a distinctive clarity and a healthy antidote to other more superficially alluring or volatile readings . |
| 2 | How had Hubert let Elfael and Brycheiniog slip through his fingers in the first place ? |
| 3 | Below : John Barry grits his teeth on the first pitch of Thin Wall Special ( E1 ) . |
| 4 | She noticed his teeth for the first time : small and irregular , like pieces of gravel on a driveway , but sparkling white . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
| 7 | Charlie 's hearing was fully restored a week later and a smile appeared on his lips for the first time when he saw Grace standing by his side pouring him a cup of tea . |
| 8 | The Fourth Gospel , for example , does not lie when it puts into the mouth of Christ words , and whole patterns of speech , which we do not find on His lips in the first three gospels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Details of his transactions for the first month are given . |
| 11 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 12 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 13 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |
| 14 | Ruiz sued TDC for violations of his rights under the first , fourth and eighth amendments to the Constitution of the United States . |
| 15 | Nicholas impeded his generals in the first campaigning season by taking the field personally , but in 1829 Ivan Dibich led the army deep into eastern Thrace while Paskevich , in the east , took Kars and Erzerum ( a campaign immortalized in prose by Aleksandr Pushkin ) . |
| 16 | In 1958 , fifty years after A Room with a View was first published , Forster added an appendix to it in which he described the fate of his characters after the First World War was ended : |
| 17 | Why , then , could Tolkien not finish his legends of the First Age off ? |
| 18 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 19 | Mansell is looking to clinch a record-breaking ninth Grand Prix win in a season — and he underlined his determination yesterday by blasting clear of his chasers in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's Portuguese race . |
| 20 | Clive Smott ( 59 ) was formerly with Princess Eugene Road Garage Reserves and has agreed to come out of retirement and put on his boots for the first time in three years . |
| 21 | A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war . |
| 22 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 23 | If the state was not present in his novels from the first , it is there in One Fat Englishman , and in Jake 's Thing . |
| 24 | 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% . |