Example sentences of "first time [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
2 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
3 | Running for the first time for his new trainer , Mighty Mogul easily brushed aside Kaytak over an extended two miles at Newbury last month . |
4 | They had the chances against Linfield in the first half , and both Michael O'Hagan and Martin McGaughey , playing for the first time against his old club , went close . |
5 | For the first time in his over-confident reign , Souness looked lost . |
6 | FORMER England goalkeeper Peter Shilton was sent off last night for the first time in his long career . |
7 | He had felt sure when he left his hotel room that every eye in Saigon would be on him that evening because he was wearing a white tuxedo for the very first time in his young life . |
8 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
9 | The match has added significance in that Stephen Martin plays against his Irish team-mates for the first time in his illustrious career . |
10 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |
11 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |