Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
2 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
3 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
4 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
5 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
6 | He buggered me for the first time that night , reaching round and putting his hand over my mouth , tearing me in two . |
7 | Just then he noticed me for the first time . |
8 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
9 | He saw me for the first time . |
10 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
11 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
12 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |
13 | As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed . |