Example sentences of "he [verb] his first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 2 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 3 | Then , the day before Latowa 's death , he made his first contact with ‘ Charlie ’ . |
| 4 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 5 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 6 | After the 1979 season , Dave caddied for Michael King and Manuel Calero , then he made his first bid for the bag of Sandy Lyle . |
| 7 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 8 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 9 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 10 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |
| 11 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 12 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 13 | He made his first visit to Vesuvius in 1831 , and published Sketches of Vesuvius , with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions in 1832 . |
| 14 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 15 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 16 | Ruskin 's Fors Clavigera was probably Mackmurdo 's greatest single inspiration , and he modelled his first pamphlet , The Immorality of Lending for Payment of Interest or of any Usurious Gain ( 1878 ) , on Unto this Last ( 1862 ) . |
| 17 | By 3 February 1722 , when he registered his first maker 's marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , he had set up in Threadneedle Street , a move made possible by his marriage on 9 January 1722 to Alder , wealthy daughter of Samuel Phelpes , gentleman merchant , and Mary Aldworth , descendant of merchant princes linked with the East India Company and the Society of Merchant Adventurers of Bristol . |
| 18 | However questionable the theology on both sides , he passed his first test of personal ideology with a spirited display of the right instincts . |
| 19 | At Maryhill Barracks , he met his first instance of bad temper of the night . |
| 20 | Local evening papers described how he met his first wife , who is named : ‘ pregnant , they married in a hurry ’ . |
| 21 | He met his first wife , also called Sarah , at the age of 16 , when she was playing the clarinet in a school orchestra . |
| 22 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 23 | A beady glint appeared in Manolo 's clear blue eyes as he got his first scent of blood money and began to turn into a shark . |
| 24 | In Hungary he got his first win — by almost a lap over the entire field — and in Belgium last week he did it again , although not without some drama . |
| 25 | In 908/1502–3 , when he sought his first appointment , the kazasker of Rumeli was Hacihasanzade and the kazasker of Anadolu was Molla " Abd al-Rahman b . |
| 26 | His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture . |
| 27 | But actually he built his first engine , I think , for a quarry in |
| 28 | And when he built his first engine it was made out of erm iron and stuff and was extremely heavy . |
| 29 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 30 | He met Paula , described by workmates as popular and outgoing , in 1988 the year that he divorced his first wife . |