Example sentences of "first [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken did and Jackie promptly produced results : on his first day 's testing he was as quick as Bruce McLaren ; in his first race he won and scored eleven victories in thirteen starts . |
| 2 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |
| 3 | After the first morning 's filming we assembled by the front door to go to Alexander 's house , half a mile away , for lunch . |
| 4 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 5 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 6 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |