Example sentences of "his first [noun sg] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first position was with the old Edinburgh Corporation as a trainee valuer and he has been with Lothian Regional Council since reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 2 | His first position was as a Trainee Programmer in Systems Technical Development working for Peter Davie . |
| 3 | His first ascent was in a hot air balloon , of the Montgolfier type , in October 1784 and his last was made in 1816 . |
| 4 | His first marriage was to Frances Boure . |
| 5 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 6 | Back to the National , for this week there can be no getting away from it , his first memory is of watching Red Rum 's first triumph . |
| 7 | His first race is at Brands Hatch on Easter weekend and then its off to Knockhill for round one of the British Championship … |
| 8 | His first race was at Oulton Park in 1962 when he was behind the wheel of a Porsche . |
| 9 | His first thought was of the party who had just left him , but unfortunately his cry for help was not heard by them . |
| 10 | Not for the first time Matey noted that his first thought was of his maid . |
| 11 | Is it within your power to draw the Prime Minister 's attention to the fact that his first responsibility is to the House of Commons , that there is a Prime Minister 's Question Time every Tuesday and Thursday and that we have a Foreign Secretary and a Secretary of State for Defence who are quite able to deal with international and defence commitments overseas ? |
| 12 | His first concern was for the children . |
| 13 | GORDON Edwards ( Bromborough ) , who never seems to lose his form with the passing of years , won the English Open Seniors Championship for the second time his first success was in 1988 . |
| 14 | He went there in 1958 and his first posting was to a remote rural station in the north of the country . |
| 15 | His first posting was to Abu Dhabi , where he recalls routinely testing wells with 20,000 barrels a day production capacity — by burning the production ! |
| 16 | His first introduction was to Princess Margaret . |
| 17 | His first appointment was in Leeds as a poor law surgeon , which he later described as ‘ an ordeal all the medical men of the town go through as the high road to better practice ’ . |
| 18 | His first cure was at Yalding in the Medway valley , where he succeeded the radical printing preacher John Strowd . |
| 19 | His first ambition was to be a pilot or flight engineer . |
| 20 | ( His first design was for a vehicle propelled by legs ) . |
| 21 | His first action was on 22 December 1944 when he led a band of 34 against a French outpost ( one is reminded of Aung San and his Thirty Comrades ) . |
| 22 | Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine . |
| 23 | His first job was as a cloth-cutter and sewing machinist in a factory . |
| 24 | After winning the Enfield by-election in 1984 , his first job was in the whip 's office , followed by a stint as junior health minister . |
| 25 | When he joined the UKAEA in 1956 his first job was in accounts , followed by a short period in commercial . |