Example sentences of "take his first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joking Leslie takes his first step to fitness |
| 2 | In his book Anglo-Saxon England ( Cambridge 1970 ) Peter Hunter Blair wrote ( p.370 ) : ‘ The novice should take his first steps … with the aid of the Anglo-Saxon Primer by H. Sweet ( 9th edition , revised 1953 ) … [ then with ] An Introduction to Old English by G.L. Brook ( Manchester 1955 ) … and for a dictionary A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J.R.C. Hall . ’ |
| 3 | People got bored watching little Johnny take his first steps ? |
| 4 | A five year old boy from Bosnia who 's paralysed from the waist down could soon take his first steps with the aid of calipers . |
| 5 | He can improve again and take his first Group prize . |
| 6 | He can improve again and take his first Group prize . |
| 7 | Before he could take his first step into the water he saw the fish . |
| 8 | After taking his first degree , he stayed on a further two years to do an MSc . |
| 9 | She felt about as poised as a baby elephant taking his first steps , she thought miserably . |
| 10 | He became seriously ill shortly after taking his first job in a surveyor 's office . |
| 11 | Across the globe in that year , 1962 , 21-year old Richard Neville was taking his first step into journalism , editing the University of New South Wales student paper , Tharunka . |
| 12 | Ditton , who started by using the lavatory as a place to make notes secretly , took his first notes on lavatory paper . |
| 13 | In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . |
| 14 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 15 | That was the point at which he took his first step towards home . |
| 16 | And sure enough the time came for his release … the pen was opened and he was free to go , after an uncertain start Freddy the Fox took his first step in the world as a wild Fox . |
| 17 | The German-Jewish family moved back to London in 1931 , where the 18-year-old Goodman took his first job as an apprentice to the leading commercial photographer of the day , Shaw Wildman . |
| 18 | LEIGHTON JAMES , the former Bradford coach and Welsh international , yesterday took his first steps on the managerial ladder when he was named as the new boss of Beazer Homes Premier Division strugglers Weymouth . |
| 19 | He has taken his first steps and is eating and drinking well . |
| 20 | JOE MONTANA has taken his first steps towards an NFL comeback — by imitating Randall Cunningham . |
| 21 | He had taken his first steps forward in English politics by denouncing the emphasis on German politics ; he was able to shift to a position the King found acceptable by adopting the policy he later described by saying ‘ America was conquered in Germany ’ , and this approach suited Britain 's position very well . |
| 22 | Finally , the television presenter Leslie Crowther has taken his first steps since being injured in a road accident . |
| 23 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |
| 24 | He paused to take his first mouthful of fish . |
| 25 | SDLP chairman Mark Durkan , tipped to eventually succeed party leader John Hume as Foyle MP , is to take his first steps in elective politics , it was learned today . |
| 26 | Such was the disturbed world in which the young impressionable Nasser was to take his first steps in politics in the 1930s . |
| 27 | ‘ Jaz ’ laughed and ‘ accidentally ’ trod on my foot as he made his way to take his first throw . |
| 28 | He felt as if he was about to take his first woman , and as he stood beneath the trees , watching her running towards him , Fergus felt himself trembling . |
| 29 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 30 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |