Example sentences of "and [vb past] his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 2 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 4 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 5 | When Aimar v , Viscount of Limoges , suspected that his wife and his uncle Archambaud of Comborn were having an affair he went to war against his uncle and made his first attack without warning . |
| 6 | Harry was a little diffident to begin with , but he soon settled down and made his first appearance for Palace at outside-right when he came into the side for season 1922–23 on 30 September at Leicester . |
| 7 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 8 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |
| 9 | He looked up and caught his first glimpse of Celia through the beads . |
| 10 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 11 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 12 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 13 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 14 | He made his League debut against Arsenal at Hillsborough in November 1991 and scored his first goal for the club in the third round FA Cup victory over Preston . |
| 15 | Remarkably , Fender was not naturally right-handed , and scored his first boyhood century as a left-hander . |
| 16 | The Bank 's founder , Andrew Drummond , was an established goldsmith who followed the lead of other West End goldsmiths into banking and opened his first ledger in September 1717 . |
| 17 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 18 | Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club . |
| 19 | In 1941 he moved to Hollywood and landed his first part in Robert Stevenson 's Joan of Paris ( 1942 ) , a gripping propaganda adventure . |
| 20 | He was ordained deacon in Chichester in 1850 and served his first curacy in Easebourne , where he studied the writings of the Christian Socialist movement , in particular those of Charles Kingsley [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 22 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 23 | After getting a regular drive in the Brabham team , Piquet grew in confidence and ability and won his first race at Long Beach in 1980 . |
| 24 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 25 | He moved into Mayfair and bought his first Matisse . |
| 26 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 27 | Prost joined the Renault team in 1981 as a replacement for Jean-Pierre Jabouille and had his first success in the rain-interrupted French Grand Prix at Dijon . |
| 28 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 29 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |
| 30 | Then , when playing in the top flight for us , he shone as brightly as any of the great players who opposed him and gained his first England Under 23 cap in October 1970 in recognition of his undisputed talent . |