Example sentences of "and [vb past] his first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 2 | He learned the moves of the game at four years old , and made his first competitive appearance in Vienna two years later . |
| 3 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 4 | George moved to Liverpool and produced his first documented work , a wax portrait relief of Henry Blundell [ q.v. ] of Ince , the connoisseur and sculpture collector . |
| 5 | He plonked it on and got his first four . |
| 6 | Sam is now seven , and received his First holy communion at this convent on the next day . |
| 7 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 8 | Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk , who was born in Eureka , California and spent his first six years on a Red Indian reservation , scored centuries in the Varsity matches of 1953 and 1954 , and captained Cambridge in 1955 . |
| 9 | It was there that he rode Evichstar in the Lincoln Handicap in 1990 — and notched his first big race victory . |
| 10 | By the time he 'd reached his teens , Johnny had been exposed to rock'n'roll and put his first real band together , Johnny and the Jammers , still with Edgar at his side on piano . |
| 11 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |