Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now comfortably ensconced in Barham with his fiancée , Diane , a Brummie belle whom he met on his first tour here four years ago , he says he is enjoying himself , even if those impenetrable Lee van Cleef eyes and inscrutable countenance give precious little away . |
| 2 | These ethico-political concerns formed the basis of his early works on madness : as he announced in his first book , Mental Illness and Psychology ( 1954 ) : |
| 3 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 4 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 5 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 6 | ‘ Onward , Christian soldiers ! ’ boomed my father , as he hammered in his first piton . |
| 7 | I 've still got the rhinu he paid as his first premium . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 9 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 10 | Andre Agassi 's stay in Key Biscayne was depressingly short as he lost in his first match to one of what seemed countless unheralded other Americans , Bryan Shelton . |
| 11 | The chief superintendent for the area was a firm believer in community policing , and he put as his first priority the prevention of public disorder . |
| 12 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Simmons dispossessed Meek from the restart and , as he did with his first goal , secured his hat trick by scoring from the centre spot . |
| 14 | ‘ I wish I could stay out there until dark , ’ he said after his first round . |
| 15 | ‘ I am Tick , the deformed coachman , ’ he said in his First Witch voice ( ‘ Macabre in the extreme' — Plays and Players ) . |
| 16 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |
| 17 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |