Example sentences of "he [verb] first [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Frankenstein was correct in his basic idea , Mary — he sought first to create a race free from the bounds of ordinary human weakness ! |
| 2 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 3 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 4 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 5 | The authors do not acknowledge the source of Escoffier 's account , but recount that it was during his days as an army chef de cuisine at the siege of Metz in 1870 that he had first grasped the necessity of improving the techniques of canning food . |
| 6 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 7 | ( He had first formed a minority government in 1985 , ending over 40 years of PCP rule in the province , and had then won a large majority at elections in 1987 — see p. 35452 . ) |
| 8 | In one notebook ( dated 24 April to 22 June 1897 ) he had first written an essay on the ‘ London Night ’ and then wrote across it , |
| 9 | Since that day in August when he had first visited the house up the valley , he had , during the past ten weeks , made a dozen return visits . |
| 10 | He could n't remember quite when he had first visited the shop but , like Wimbledon itself , it had always been there . |
| 11 | With the meticulousness with which he was to become associated on each project , Dustin decided that he had first to get the voice of the 121-year-old man right . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 14 | He had first mentioned the concept of ego ideal in his paper ‘ On Narcissism ’ ( 1914 ) , and the notion of ego ideal is later said to be identical with that of super-ego in The Ego and the Id ( 1923 ) . |
| 15 | However , he wanted first to meet the kind old gentleman in London , who would help him . |