Example sentences of "on his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal hold the Maceeter trophy but were watched at Wolves last week by Vengloss , keen to impress on his first test in English football . |
| 2 | It was a pity that he was not left with his aircraft , as he was put on standby as soon as we arrived at Takali , and killed on his first operation in Malta … ’ |
| 3 | Cook charted the coast of New Zealand on his first voyage of exploration , 1768–71 . |
| 4 | In 1768 Captain Cook , in the Endeavour on his first voyage to the South Pacific , called at Madeira . |
| 5 | Five ex- Orynthia men , including Cox himself , feature in the crew of 16 , while among the newcomers was young George Groves , a 15-year-old Portsmouth lad on his first voyage . |
| 6 | on his first assignment in his first week out there . |
| 7 | His prose-poetry had tumbled into full prose , and he was now engaged on his first novel , under the title of Beauty At Close Quarters . |
| 8 | His first book , containing two stories , ‘ Odette D'Antrevernes ’ and ‘ A Study in Temperament ’ , was published in 1905 ; and in the following summer he was at work on his first novel The Artificial Princess ( published posthumously in 1934 ) : in it he devised the techniques of elliptical narrative and baroque construction , and the manner , at once satirical and lyric , concentrated and fragmentary , that were to characterize his mature work . |
| 9 | Bruno 's promoter , Micky Duff , urging Lewis to cash in on his first defence with a summer clash at Wembley stadium , said : ‘ That kind of money puts Frank in a very solid position . |
| 10 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
| 11 | It was shortly after his time at Oxford , on his first journey to the Continent , that Hobbes found that others were dissatisfied with scholasticism ; and we have already noted that an interest in method was characteristic of the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | He did not want to travel far on his first journey ; he would leave the darker , more mysterious corridors until later when he had built up enough courage . |
| 13 | He probably went twice to Spain with Scipio Aemilianus , in 151 and in 134 ; on his first journey he must have visited southern France , including Marseilles ( Polyb. 3.59.7 ) . |
| 14 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 15 | Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble . |
| 16 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 17 | The NECC 's first initiative , echoed by Nelson Mandela on his first day out of gaol , was to urge all children to return to school . |
| 18 | On his first day 's duty how much he chipped . |
| 19 | Kurt Weinburg 's evacuation began disastrously but , thanks to his headmaster ( who had already proved his sensitivity by introducing Kurt on his first day to the only other Jewish boy in the school ) , it turned out better than he expected : |
| 20 | De Niro as Lowe on his first day out for 20 years |
| 21 | Ken did and Jackie promptly produced results : on his first day 's testing he was as quick as Bruce McLaren ; in his first race he won and scored eleven victories in thirteen starts . |
| 22 | Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ? |
| 23 | Sheringham had a shock on his first day at Tottenham — a training session . |
| 24 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 25 | One teacher described to a group how on his first day of teaching he faced his class of first-year juniors thinking " Reading ? |
| 26 | " Trust him to land a good catch on his first day out , " he muttered to himself , and watched as the boat struck her sails and picked up her mooring , which was marked by a pig 's bladder float with a feather on it , a stone 's throw offshore in the stretch of water known as Polruan 's Pool . |
| 27 | Really Thérèse , Madeleine scolded her : to upset him like that on his first day at home ! |
| 28 | Zack is on his first day working as a repairman for Gadgetco Inc . |
| 29 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 30 | On his first day of arrival he was told the authorities had closed EuroDisney down and when he asked why , he was told someone had reported to the authorities that a six foot mouse was walking round the day before . |