Example sentences of "him [prep] [pos pn] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 2 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 3 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 4 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 5 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 6 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 7 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 8 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 9 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 10 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 11 | Doshi added : ‘ You could see the confidence in him in his first Test match . |
| 12 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 13 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 14 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 15 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 16 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 17 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 18 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 19 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |