Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think .
2 He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs .
3 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
4 He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters .
5 He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption .
6 In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question .
7 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 !
8 Immediately after his generalization about " " eelde " " he returns to the first person plural — " " owre olde lemes " " ( 3886 ) — and within two lines is back to " " ik " " .
9 And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ?
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