Example sentences of "had [verb] his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six hours from the start , in a wide lush valley , Fusil had placed his first checkpoint . |
| 2 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
| 3 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 4 | Of these the most important was Hartley , after whom he had named his first son . |
| 5 | Eleanor 's husband had secured his first lectureship , and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles . |
| 6 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 7 | He had seen his first Rottweiler in the UK whilst visiting a police dog training centre and he was greatly impressed with his working ability . |
| 8 | By the time it was all over , Norman had done his first mix , a poppy version of Eric B and Rakim 's ‘ I Know You Got Soul ’ which sampled The Jackson Five 's ‘ ABC ’ with a typical lack of concern for cool . |
| 9 | Before long , he had made his first links with staff in the bank 's Florida and Panama branches . |
| 10 | In February 1943 Wingate had made his first long-range penetration into North Burma , cut the railway in seventy places and crossed the Irrawaddy . |
| 11 | He had made his first apport as a teenager . |
| 12 | Asif Mujtaba had made his first Test half-century and seemed quite settled , while England will have felt apprehensive about Salim Malik after he was spared at 22 by Gooch at slip , low and to his left , off Lewis . |
| 13 | His greatest idea came after he had written his first works and was doing an index for a book : this was to give a name composed of two words , a generic name and a specific or trivial one , to each species . |
| 14 | Such a tightly structured normative system , in middle-class Vienna at the turn of the century , had produced his first patients , and his theory was designed to understand the ways in which this normative structure had caused the unhappiness of these people . |
| 15 | Not yet past the lunch hour , and Erlich had had his first argument of the day . |
| 16 | Salisbury had had his first bowl , though not from the usual legspinner 's end . |
| 17 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |
| 18 | Mr McWhirter had had his first two periods free , as usual , the timetable being constructed around Mr McWhirter 's convenience and preferences . |
| 19 | In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him . |
| 20 | Howard Wilkinson declared himself satisfied with Leeds ' pre-season progress so far , and was especially pleased that Deane had got his first goal . |
| 21 | The Club 's President revealed along the way that he had played his first golf at St Andrew 's in 1886 , aged 3½ , when he had used a wooden putter . |
| 22 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 23 | Aamir Sohail had reached his first Test fifty with some bold strokeplay , and Malcolm had amused with a double misfield at mid-off . |
| 24 | Within two years of overcoming this faction , Henry had divorced his first wife and married Matilda , the daughter of Henry II of England . |
| 25 | Steven Clarke shot Portadown into the lead in the 44th minute , scoring at the second attempt after Maguire had parried his first shot . |
| 26 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 27 | Charles , meanwhile , had commenced his first campaign to subdue the Saxons , a task which was not concluded for over 20 years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He died a year ago , ’ said Coffin shortly ; he had liked his first boss . |
| 30 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |