Example sentences of "have his first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AUTHOR Ken Andrew , of Bournemouth , Dorset , has had his first racy novel published — at the age of 98 . |
| 2 | He was taken off his drip again overnight and has had his first proper feed . |
| 3 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 4 | Mr Davis expects his Davis Entertainment Television company to have his first Soviet-based project , a made-for-television film about the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen from a Russian perspective , ready by January . |
| 5 | And now he was to have his first big test as editor at a gathering at an old Big Flame haunt , the Beechwood conference centre near Leeds , a worker 's co-operative , complete with wholefood canteen . |
| 6 | Poliakoff had his first playwrighting success at the age of 19 but he has always been , to put it gently , a more grown-up dramatist than many of the pack of hairy , scary stage writers whose careers coincide with his . |
| 7 | On 20 March he had his first official invitation to dine at the Tuileries , where he was seated next to the Empress . |
| 8 | Peter Yeo , who had known this particular juggernaut since he had his first small factory and two stores and dirt under his fingernails from shifting packing-cases personally , was not fazed by the question . |
| 9 | From there he had his first real glimpse of the Lake District and fell in love with the area about a quarter of which was in Lancashire until 1974 . |
| 10 | Through the Thirties he centralized his activities on London and , in 1935 , had his first major success with the spectacular revue Go With The Girls . |
| 11 | At twenty-three , he had his first big hit with the general public : Pineapple Poll , still a crowd-puller after three decades . |
| 12 | DESERT Orchid had his first proper meal yesterday since undergoing emergency surgery for a twisted gut . |
| 13 | In May , following these forays , Hitler had his first top-level meeting to discuss the western defences with the Todt Organisation , and plans were begun for the so-called Atlantic Wall , although there already existed a series of defended ports and the original defence arrangements set up when fleets of craft were being assembled for an invasion of England . |
| 14 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 15 | He was a choirboy at St Paul 's Cathedral , where he had his first starring role , leading a processional , picked to do so , he believed , ‘ because I looked such a cherub ’ . |
| 16 | laker had his first 10-wicket haul in the visitors ' first innings , and Lock took 7 for 49 in the second . |
| 17 | The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing . |