Example sentences of "he [verb] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 2 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 3 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 4 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 5 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 6 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 7 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 8 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 9 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 12 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 13 | In the last two stanzas , Blake is explaining the marks of woe that he sees in the first stanza — but what extraordinary connections to make ! |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said in the first letter , ‘ that I wish myself not a prince , but a simple fellow . |
| 16 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |