Example sentences of "he [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pay tribute to him for first raising the subject of league tables for schools ' performances in the Bill that he introduced earlier in the year . |
| 2 | Let's have him in first thing . ’ |
| 3 | Should he mirror his international form at St James ' Park , manager Kevin Keegan may be tempted to restore him to first choice goalkeeper . |
| 4 | I did n't believe him at first . |
| 5 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 6 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |
| 7 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 8 | You may have to help him at first , but as he progresses , he can tackle more complicated puzzles . |
| 9 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 10 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 11 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 12 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 14 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 15 | I did n't fancy him at first , not particularly . |
| 16 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 17 | Ah did n't see him at first . |
| 18 | She was almost unconscious and did not recognize him at first . |
| 19 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 20 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 21 | William says both his parents were riding enthusiasts and he got put on a horse at the age of three … his mother used to ride for Britian in the sixties and she 's encouraged him to compete … it used to terrify him at first and he never dreamt he 'd be good enough to compete … |
| 22 | Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed . |
| 23 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 24 | And I would go in and I I never said nothing to him at first did I ? but I just could n't take it any more . |
| 25 | Searelle invited artistes to contact him by first writing to John , who thus became responsible for their standards . |
| 26 | Taking in the titles from left to right , he at first saw little of interest:Queer Things About Egypt ; Wonderful Nests , by the Rev. J. G. Wood ; The Elements of Mechanism ; Highways and Byways in the West Country … |
| 27 | When Meese handed North the memorandum , he at first showed no surprise . |
| 28 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 29 | Grave and reserved at the vicious court of his drunken , slobbering but affable father , he at first resented but then became emotionally dependent on the King 's ebullient favourite the Duke of Buckingham . |
| 30 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |