Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 2 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 3 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 4 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 5 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 6 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 7 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 8 | Dana read a group of modern Americans , which must have annoyed the British , starting with Elizabeth Bishop 's ‘ The Fish ’ — I can still hear his voice , the faint American accent and the hushed astonishment he put into the first line : ‘ I caught a tremendous fish … . ’ |
| 9 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 10 | Next the designer moves on to the exceptions , such as a and s , all the while bearing in mind the axis he established with the first letter he designed . |
| 11 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 12 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 13 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 14 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 15 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 16 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 17 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |