Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] in the first " in BNC.

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1 Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game .
2 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 ) .
3 As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par .
4 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 .
5 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 :
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