Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After completing his PhD in ornithology at the University of Moscow in 1966 , he published the Birds of Vietnam , for which he was honoured by his university with first prize for conservation achievement in 1982 . |
| 2 | Later he went up to Oxford , taking his degree with first class honours in History . |
| 3 | Nazarbayev resigned his post as first secretary and thus membership of the CPSU politburo on Aug. 22 . |
| 4 | On March 22 Saddam Hussein promoted Taha Yasin Ramadhan , from his post of First Deputy Prime Minister to Vice-President . |
| 5 | The controversy led to his dismissal as Slovak Prime Minister in April 23 by the Slovak parliament and his replacement by First Deputy Prime Minister Carnogursky , leader of the Christian Democratic Movement [ see p. 38161 ] . |
| 6 | Sir Douglas Lovelock supervises capital assets amounting to roughly £3 billion in his role as first Commissioner and a further £630 million in his capacity as chairman of the CBF . |
| 7 | The baby 's due in August , but the DJ with the most popular radio show in Britain already looks quite at home in his role of first time father-to-be . |