Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 2 | In 1888 Smith , a conscientious and outwardly austere man , gave up his business to become the first full-time secretary of the BB , his salary being donated by prominent Scottish businessmen . |
| 3 | His announcement constituted the first fundamental change of US policy on Indo-China since the US retreat from the region in 1975 . |
| 4 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 5 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 6 | Eventually he allows his wife to make the first wish ; she wishes for him : ( " That you should be completely covered with penises " ) |
| 7 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 8 | His father struck the first chord and Davide began , |
| 9 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |
| 10 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |
| 11 | To enhance even further the quality and efficiency of the yard 's hull shapes , he persuaded his father to build the first commercial test tank in the world in 1881 , with assistance from Froude 's son , superintendent of the Admiralty test tank in Torquay . |
| 12 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 13 | He had previously pedalled his way to make the first cycle crossings of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco , and of Lapland from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea . |