Example sentences of "he [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 he travelled to Brazil where he lived first under the name Peter Hochbichler until taking the name Gerhard in 1976 . |
| 2 | In retirement he lived first at Herringfleet Hall in Suffolk , where he was a justice of the peace , and then at Dedham House in Essex . |
| 3 | He realised first that a muon in the vicinity of a hydrogen atom would orbit 207 times nearer to the central nucleus than would the electron , and so the muon would get inside the electron 's orbit and take over the electrical attraction of the proton ; it is an atomic ‘ excuse me ’ dance routine . |
| 4 | In 1859 he passed first class in botany in the first examination for teachers organized by the Department of Science and Art , and this was his sole academic qualification . |
| 5 | He was himself forced to remain in England to defend his interests and never settled in his colony ; he appointed first his brother Leonard [ q.v. ] and then his second son Charles to the post of governor . |
| 6 | With the aid of a small capital thus amassed , he became first a pedlar in Lincolnshire , then a traveller — but it seems to sit on the surface of his story that the motive for his wider travels was not so much the search for gain as the love of travel itself , and the urge to pilgrimage . |
| 7 | Since he became first their prisoner and then their enforced guest , Nicholas had rarely met all his present masters ; and had thought it best not to seek their company . |
| 8 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you speak French ? ’ he asked first , shaking my hand . |
| 10 | ‘ What about the third girl ? ’ he asked first . |
| 11 | Her escort seemed equally speechless , but he recovered first . |
| 12 | He must have been equally surprised to see her but he recovered first , and while Rachel was still floundering to find something to say and Julie was murmuring something about hoping he would enjoy working at OBEX he said , ‘ Actually , we 've met before . |
| 13 | Goalkeeper Alan Main fumbled a Glynn Snodin corner and , in the process , allowed Baird to scramble home his tenth goal of the season after John Robertson had failed to connect when he got first bite at the cherry . |
| 14 | Your Frankenstein was correct in his basic idea , Mary — he sought first to create a race free from the bounds of ordinary human weakness ! |
| 15 | From the 1970s on , he expanded first into US newspapers ( the New York Post , for example ) and then into film and TV , buying control of Metromedia and Twentieth Century Fox ( whose massive film archive could feed his TV channels ) . |
| 16 | The assailant had hidden on the left of the track , he probed first on that side . |
| 17 | He found first , that the chief executives did not play as strong a leadership role as Bains recommended ; second , that professionalism and departmentalism had prevented the development of a corporate management team ; and third , that the policy committees were frequently not supported by the full range of subcommittees suggested by Bains . |
| 18 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 19 | He found first gear and eased the great machine slowly forward until it hit the utility room door , closed it , and pinned it fast . |
| 20 | He referred first , to two statements in Brown v. Draper [ 1944 ] K.B . |
| 21 | He described first ‘ foreground factors ’ ; these include how long people have lived in an area and how settled it is ; how close people are physically ; and the age and stage in the life cycle and gender : Abrams comments that : |
| 22 | From South Africa he fled first to Mauritius , with the help of a radical newspaper that was keen to print his story . |
| 23 | He played first a whistle , then a mouth organ , then a trumpet . |
| 24 | But this time she had no objection to make whatsoever when tenderly , unhurriedly he undid first one shoulder-strap , and then the other . |
| 25 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 26 | When he 'd first been taken poorly , Baby had been driven in an ambulance from one hospital to another . |
| 27 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 28 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 29 | Then the inner sanctum ; precisely one hour after he 'd first been called ; he was sure it was deliberate . |
| 30 | And he was no longer armed — he had hurled the Walther taken from Steve into the sea at Walberswick , followed by the magazine he 'd first extracted . |