Example sentences of "and [vb past] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 2 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 4 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 5 | He learned the moves of the game at four years old , and made his first competitive appearance in Vienna two years later . |
| 6 | Harry was a little diffident to begin with , but he soon settled down and made his first appearance for Palace at outside-right when he came into the side for season 1922–23 on 30 September at Leicester . |
| 7 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 8 | When Aimar v , Viscount of Limoges , suspected that his wife and his uncle Archambaud of Comborn were having an affair he went to war against his uncle and made his first attack without warning . |
| 9 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 10 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 11 | George moved to Liverpool and produced his first documented work , a wax portrait relief of Henry Blundell [ q.v. ] of Ince , the connoisseur and sculpture collector . |
| 12 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |
| 13 | He plonked it on and got his first four . |
| 14 | He looked up and caught his first glimpse of Celia through the beads . |
| 15 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 16 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 17 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 18 | Sam is now seven , and received his First holy communion at this convent on the next day . |
| 19 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 20 | He made his League debut against Arsenal at Hillsborough in November 1991 and scored his first goal for the club in the third round FA Cup victory over Preston . |
| 21 | Remarkably , Fender was not naturally right-handed , and scored his first boyhood century as a left-hander . |
| 22 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 23 | The Bank 's founder , Andrew Drummond , was an established goldsmith who followed the lead of other West End goldsmiths into banking and opened his first ledger in September 1717 . |
| 24 | He moved to Lotus the following season and enjoyed his first win at Estoril . |
| 25 | Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk , who was born in Eureka , California and spent his first six years on a Red Indian reservation , scored centuries in the Varsity matches of 1953 and 1954 , and captained Cambridge in 1955 . |
| 26 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 27 | Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club . |
| 28 | In 1941 he moved to Hollywood and landed his first part in Robert Stevenson 's Joan of Paris ( 1942 ) , a gripping propaganda adventure . |
| 29 | He was ordained deacon in Chichester in 1850 and served his first curacy in Easebourne , where he studied the writings of the Christian Socialist movement , in particular those of Charles Kingsley [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |