Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [prep] his " in BNC.
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1 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
2 | Mr Thompson , 42 , of Chelmsford , Essex , was murdered in October in a hotel car park on the first day of his holiday . |
3 | And on the first day of his eight-day tour of the Greek Islands with wife Lady Mills , it ‘ went ’ again and left him unable to walk . |
4 | On the first day of his reappearance he contented himself with walking about , avoiding people 's eyes , or shovelling at the still melting ramparts like a man with a crime to expiate . |
5 | On the first day of his visit Roh attended a state banquet at which Akihito issued an apology which was well received by the South Korean government . |
6 | On the first day of his visit he and Chancellor Kohl signed a 20-year Treaty on Good-neighbourliness , Partnership and Co-operation , which had been initialled in Moscow on Sept. 13 [ see p. 37718 ; for text see p. 37835 ] and which , Kohl said , " rules off the painful chapters of our past and clears the way for a new beginning " . |
7 | President César Gaviria Trujillio signed four accords on Feb. 26 , the first day of his official two-day visit to the United States . |
8 | Speaking from his holiday home in Kennebunkport , President George Bush sought to distance himself from the controversy , stating that it was not " a matter for the president to be concerned about , especially on the first day of his vacation " . |
9 | Robert Mantack from Swindon arrived at Bristol Crown Court for the first day of his trial . |
10 | Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground . |
11 | An Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign recited that great numbers of persons : |
12 | First , an individual may well have no taxable income in the first year of his self-employment and a bunching of income on ceasing self-employment . |
13 | However , relatively speaking , Reagan and his staff , in the first year of his presidency , were brilliantly successful in maintaining control over the budgetary process and were able to ensure that the budget that eventually emerged was reasonably close to their original blueprint . ’ |
14 | During the first year after his return , when the royal position was in the balance , Henry would have had to give way if Anselm had insisted on his renouncing homage and investiture . |
15 | The first leg of his travel plans will take him back to the elders of the church there , with some of the converts from Asia Minor and Greece , with a love gift for the relief of the hardship amongst the Christians . |
16 | During his stay in Tanzania on the first leg of his seventh visit to Africa , the Pope called for more international aid to Africa and urged the international community " to inaugurate a new era of solidarity with Africa , based on justice and respect " . |
17 | The first test of his promise that the bad old days are gone will be the manner in which he treats people like these , who continue to exercise their right to criticise his government . |
18 | His 22-year-old step grandchild Madjit was forced to jump from the first floor with his pyjamas ablaze . |
19 | It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book . |
20 | Pindar wrote the first poem of his career ( Pythian x ) for a Thessalian patron in 498 : This opening places Thessaly straight away in the centre of Dorian Greek culture ; the Aleuad dynasty in Thessaly is treated as a branch of the house of Herakles , that is , it is grafted on to the Dorian Peloponnesian tree . |
21 | The first courtesy of his own man , Colin Anderson . |
22 | Many years ago , according to the legend , the first daughter of his people 's lineage went missing in the forest . |
23 | The first burst from his machine-gun hammered through Dangerfield 's weary back and smashed his instrument panel . |
24 | As we drove to Alec Reid 's house for our first dinner together — and the first sight of his house — I said , ‘ You know , Alec , I thought this was going to be a simple unsophisticated life on the next best thing to a coral atoll . |
25 | Bangor 's new coach Duncan Dysart was happy enough with the first sight of his charges last week and he will have a good opportunity to identify some grey areas when they make the trip to a high-scoring City of Derry tomorrow . |
26 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |
27 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
28 | Nevertheless , the job was beginning to carry its own very real status ; Benjamin James would be the first member of his branch of the family ever to have a ‘ career ’ in anything like the modern sense of the word . |
29 | Ranger Smith , 21 , the first member of his regiment to die while on active service , was due to leave the Army only six weeks after the blast . |
30 | He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education . |