Example sentences of "he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll ask him to come first thing on Monday morning . |
| 2 | They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first . |
| 3 | It was , in testimony to his alertness , Cornelius who saw him coming first . |
| 4 | He was n't sure what impulse had made him go first to Harry Mack 's body . |
| 5 | I let him leave first . |
| 6 | In 1961 he travelled to Brazil where he lived first under the name Peter Hochbichler until taking the name Gerhard in 1976 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He goes first . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you speak French ? ’ he asked first , shaking my hand . |
| 16 | ‘ What about the third girl ? ’ he asked first . |
| 17 | Her escort seemed equally speechless , but he recovered first . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your Frankenstein was correct in his basic idea , Mary — he sought first to create a race free from the bounds of ordinary human weakness ! |
| 21 | No , he thinks first of you . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | In this area he builds first a small depression by removing mouthfuls of sand and then produces a nest from weeds which are coated with a sticky substance so that they can be moulded with his snout . |
| 24 | The assailant had hidden on the left of the track , he probed first on that side . |
| 25 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | He found first gear and eased the great machine slowly forward until it hit the utility room door , closed it , and pinned it fast . |
| 29 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 30 | He has first of all a touching proclivity to awe-struck admiration of whatever is presented to him as noble by a constituted authority ; and , secondly , a complete absence of any immediate reaction to a work of art until his judgement has thus been hypnotized by the voice of authority … |