Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Greenspan stated that the probability of recession had slipped below 50 per cent and he expected growth in the first quarter of 1990 to be " slow but positive " . |
2 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
3 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |
4 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |
5 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
6 | It was Geoteam Exploration 's first 3D seismic survey for BP and he paid tribute to the first class performance of the Nordic Explorer and staff . |
7 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
8 | In July that year , he flew Mercury on the first ever commercial Atlantic flight with a half-ton payload , starting at Foynes and landing at Montreal some 20 hours later , navigating by astro . |
9 | He said he took heroin for the first time when he was on the rebound from a broken relationship . |
10 | He could accept self-determination and advance the prospects of a political settlement without burning his boats with the army — to whom he presented association as the first step towards a real , consensual integration — and without seeming to capitulate or feeling that he was capitulating to the FLN . |
11 | He left university with a first class honours degree and a PhD in mathematical physics . |