Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 2 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 3 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 4 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 5 | He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board . |
| 6 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 7 | The charter provides evidence of a surprisingly well-worked-out system to ensure castle-guard of the town : in April , May , June , July and August , it was the count 's responsibility , though he paid only for the first two months directly out of his own treasury ; , the inhabitants of the town produced a tax for the following three . |
| 8 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 9 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 10 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 11 | He achieved little on the first day that he spent ‘ in the field ’ but on the second day he got into conversation with a group of men about a puppy that one was carrying . |
| 12 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 13 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 14 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 15 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 16 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 17 | He smiled then for the first time , and the smile lightened his face to a sudden , vivid charm . |
| 18 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 19 | King Hussein delivered a televised speech to the nation on Nov. 5 in which he spoke publicly for the first time about his recent cancer surgery in the United States [ see p. 39118 ] , announcing that he would have to undergo further tests in the USA . |
| 20 | He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim . |
| 21 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |