Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 2 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 3 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 4 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 5 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 6 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 7 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 8 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 9 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 10 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 11 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 12 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 13 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 15 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 16 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 17 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 18 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 19 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 20 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 21 | It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was . |
| 22 | As he closed the door , he noticed for the first time that there was a star on it . |
| 23 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 25 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 26 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 27 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 28 | He ducked into the first door down the hall . |
| 29 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 30 | He landed at the first aerodrome he saw . |