Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
| 2 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 3 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 4 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 5 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 6 | It was approaching the end of the season , of course , but he intended to make a first flying visit to Aphrodisias , where some old friends of his were at work , and then to spend the winter on research in libraries and museums , and have the whole of the following summer for field work . |