Example sentences of "[subord] he first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his second try at the London event , where he first ran in 1981 , and he was pleased with his performance . |
| 2 | And every Sunday after service he invited " a good number of his friends to his house , where he first reads over the paper , and then comments upon the text " . |
| 3 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 4 | Molby , 29 , suffered the damage on the opening day of pre-season training last month but the injury has proved more serious than he first thought . |
| 5 | Lord Wyatt did not want the fox to slip out unseen , so he first made sure every side of the wood was watched . |
| 6 | doctrine , and a view was subsequently promoted that a child could not do drama until he first learnt to express himself through movement . |
| 7 | Mr Ozberk , who has been refused leave for a judicial review , is left with no right of appeal — unless he first returns to Turkey , where his wife and three children live . |
| 8 | ‘ No one can enter a strong man 's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man ; then indeed he may plunder his house . ’ |
| 9 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 10 | As usual no one addressed Pétain unless he first addressed them , and only one person spoke at a time . ’ |
| 11 | That is why the initiative of God towards us is so vital for a new start in life and marriage : ‘ We love God because he first loved us . ’ |
| 12 | We love because he first loved us . |
| 13 | In Four Saints Thomson 's informality was given free reign since he first of all improvised the music at the piano then , when it stuck , wrote it down to a figured bass . |
| 14 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 15 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 16 | Since he first published his equations there has been a considerable literature developed which is devoted to expanding and refining this algebraic approach , but it was Bukharin who helped lay the foundation for this later work . |
| 17 | Ever since he first appeared on TV as Frank Spencer , this fine actor has been delighting audiences — without resorting , like some , to smut or gimmicks . |
| 18 | He is on nine , which is n't bad at all , and his goal ratio since he first came into the side has been excellent . |
| 19 | Hill has ended his last three games in agony since he first suffered the muscle strain at Ipswich earlier this month . |
| 20 | Everyone connected with The Championships , however , not least the world 's top players , know that Jim 's expertise and determination , steadily developed since he first began working with grass at Shepherd 's Bush Cricket Club in 1950 , before going on to spend 25 years at St George 's Hill , had more than silenced all the criticism which was developing about the state of the Wimbledon courts in the early 1980's . |
| 21 | Local magistrate Ron Turner , who arrives with his sandwich-box and has probably not missed a match since he first saw Hampshire at Dean Park in the 1930s , remembers Len Hutton 's double-century and the various Championships decided there . |
| 22 | It is fifteen years since he first explored the relationship of real flesh and its marble parallels in art history . |
| 23 | The changes since he first began working in the service had been radical , to say the least . |
| 24 | I 've been suspicious of him since he first arrived . ’ |
| 25 | He chose a piece of smooth parchment and began to write down everything that had happened since he first went to the Springall mansion . |
| 26 | Does the Prime Minister recall that it is now more than 12 months since he first started dithering about the election date , since when 750,000 peole have lost their jobs ? |
| 27 | Suave and sophisticated at 60 , it 's hard to believe that it 's 23 years since he first wooed a generation with Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head . |
| 28 | Entitled To Advance Further Along the Road to Perestroika , Gorbachev 's address began with the assertion that there had been a " revolutionary stride " in all spheres of life since he first announced perestroika in April 1985 . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , he has done , dear , since he first came in . |
| 30 | Allan Wilkins has sold tens of thousands of reflective car number plates since he first started selling them last June . |