Example sentences of "first [noun sg] in his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 2 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 3 | For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 . |
| 4 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 5 | It was the first obstacle in his route from Al Mansuriyah to Qara Tappah , and he could have ignored it , simply carried on , but that was not his way . |
| 6 | No : ludicrous , he thought next morning , when the first thing in his waking head was the image of his sealion self with a wife . |
| 7 | What is certain is that the Egyptian goldsmiths had developed their skills to the point at which they were able to mount amethyst , lapis lazuli and turquoise in the gold bracelets buried with King Zer of the first dynasty in his tomb at Abydos . |
| 8 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 9 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 10 | I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life ? |
| 11 | It was a crash course in survival , and in learning how to get on with people ; but when he made friends there , he knew , probably for the first time in his life , that he was liked for who he was and not what he was . |
| 12 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 13 | A high-ranking Saudi , carrying a gun for the first time in his life , said it was for use not against Iraqis but against ‘ certain other nationalities ’ . |
| 14 | He needed to do just that , for he was tired , morose and bitter and , for the first time in his life , feeling very insecure . |
| 15 | To his pleasant surprise he discovered that he was now able to think with an objective clarity which stemmed from the knowledge that he was now free for the first time in his life to speak his mind without fear or favour . |
| 16 | For the first time in his life he was free from corporate restraints , to say what he really thought . |
| 17 | Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time . |
| 18 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 19 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 20 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 21 | He was wearing a tie for the first time in his life . |
| 22 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 23 | As late as November 1927 he was revising poems for inclusion in Winter Words , the book with which he intended to mark his 90th birthday , but on 11 December , as Professor Millgate writes , ‘ he found himself , for the first time in his life , quite unable to work ’ . |
| 24 | He would , he realized , for the first time in his life have a socially acceptable problem . |
| 25 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 26 | For the first time in his life he was aware of a blissful inner peace . |
| 27 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 28 | For the first time in his life he had physically felt the colour drain from his face . |
| 29 | What they had n't realized was that this was a new Linford , stronger , fitter , faster than ever before and running in really ideal conditions for the first time in his life . |
| 30 | It was the first time in his life that he had slept out of doors ; as a boy , he and Jean-Paul had often pleaded to do this , and it had always been forbidden . |