Example sentences of "he had [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 2 | He had lost the first action in 1926 , failed on appeal and finally won the action in 1934 . |
| 3 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 4 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 5 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 6 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 7 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 8 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 9 | By June , however , he had sent the first draft of three scenes to Browne and asked him if it was worth continuing . |
| 10 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 11 | After he had drawn the first furrow in the stetch he returned alongside , ploughing a second furrow against the first , thus completing the laying of the top or centre-furrows — in shape , exactly like the ridge of a roof . |
| 12 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 13 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 14 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 15 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 16 | When he had finished the first beer , Maxim asked : ‘ Did you know the Schickerts well ? ’ |
| 17 | Yet when he had finished the first thing she said was , ‘ But you have n't really talked of the most important thing — the other eagles who were with you . |
| 18 | ‘ The Red what ? ’ said the Exec Director , pleased that he had deciphered the first word of the new code-name . |