Example sentences of "in his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first column for the Morning Post , February 16 , 1906 , he had dismissed contributory social insurance on the German pattern , as had all British investigating committees , with the standard view that it would require an ‘ un-British ’ amount of regulation of the individual . |
| 2 | Hampshire offspinner Shaun Udal took 8 for 50 against Sussex in his first Championship match for two years |
| 3 | Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg . |
| 4 | Bosch was also impressive in his first spell , when he must have been perilously close to having Simmons lbw . |
| 5 | In his first spell with the Palace , Steve matured under Dick Graham , Arthur Rowe and Bert Head and quickly became an important part of Palace 's sides in the late 1960s , when his talented inside-forward or midfield displays were one of the hallmarks of Palace performances . |
| 6 | Lewis donated a no-ball an over in his first spell , but seemed to learn from Pringle , slowed down , gained more movement leg to off from the pitch , and became even more dangerous . |
| 7 | Mid-season found him second in the national averages , and following match figures of 7 for 61 against Warwickshire , team-mate John Morris wondered whether Bishop could ever have bowled with more controlled hostility than in his first spell in the first innings . |
| 8 | On Test debut at Lord 's in 1983 this slow left-armer had three consecutive England middle-order wickets — Gower , Lamb , Gatting — in his first spell . |
| 9 | Little , 38 , an Aston Villa and England player , was sacked by Wolves in his first spell in football management , as caretaker manager at Molineux in 1986 . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 11 | All prize giving afterwards in ‘ 93 ’ the new Vice-President of IBOA , Mr. Ken Doyle [ in his first function in his new capacity ] praised the efficiency and professionalism of the way and the IBOA League was run and thanked everybody for participating . |
| 12 | It is dizzying to think how much a baby learns in his first couple of years . |
| 13 | He had learnt to cook in his first bedsit as a student . |
| 14 | The surge did n't last too long and Newton slid in his first goal seven minutes later and grabbed his second five minutes from time when he finished off a sweeping , decisive move involving Dennis Wise and Stuart . |
| 15 | Ince , taking a return from his own shot , put the little winger clear to rifle in his first goal of the season on 36 minutes . |
| 16 | FS ( 21 ) knocked in his first goal for the seniors and addressed the other contenders for the single forward role : I will have a go for the single place up front and i would like to try it vs Costa Rica . |
| 17 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 18 | Accordingly , he read arts in his first year ; commerce ( which included accounting , commercial law , political science and a couple of doses of mathematics ) in his second ; arts ( though strangely retaining political science ) for his third and fourth years , to which was added zoology . |
| 19 | If Moxon , still young in captaincy terms , were to be given the job there would be a strong argument in favour of a team manager and as Illingworth , perhaps wisely , has rejected one offer to return ( from Leicestershire ) Yorkshire might look at another native son who has , from all accounts , done an excellent job in his first year of managment at Somerset , Jack Birkenshaw . |
| 20 | In his first year as leader , Rajiv Gandhi threatened to throw out the thugs . |
| 21 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 22 | ‘ He is a definite runner , all being well , ’ said Cole , who restricted the colt to the minimum trip of five furlongs in his first year . |
| 23 | In Essex in his first year , Douglas-Smith helped to establish three new WEA branches at Dunmow , Maldon and Witham ; Terminal courses at three other centres and encouraged the creation of the Essex County Federation of WEA Branches . |
| 24 | Also at the tournament were Manuel and Severiano Ballesteros , who was in his first year on the tour , and only eighteen years old . |
| 25 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 26 | When he returned to college immediately following his discharge , he was lucky to escape with relatively minor punishment — the Master ordered one month 's gating and ninety pages of Greek translation — and was determined not only to drop his more unsuitable friends but , as in his first year at Cambridge , ‘ to write for all the Prizes ’ . |
| 27 | Because he was so far ahead in his first year , he spent his time on other things . |
| 28 | Mendy said he would be backed by a consortium — so far un-named — of professional sports people and had been guaranteed £100,000 in his first year , £200,000 in his second and £500,000 in the third . |
| 29 | In his first year of operation from April 1991 , the Pensions Ombudsman received more than 2,100 complaints . |
| 30 | Adam was nineteen and in his first year at university , though at that time at home for the Easter break . |