Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
2 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
3 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
4 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
5 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
6 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
7 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
8 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
9 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
10 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
11 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
12 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |