Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 2 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 3 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 4 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 5 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 6 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 7 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 8 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 9 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 10 | He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim . |