Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 2 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 3 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 4 | It 's said that he first traced the outline for his ladylike creation around a tall woman friend . |
| 5 | He decided to open his eyes , and immediately knew how God must have felt when he first observed his new creation . |
| 6 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 7 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 8 | He found , however , as he loped along , ostensibly to school , that he could not feel the same bitterness that he had done when he first started to write . |
| 9 | What can he have thought when he first got me here ? |
| 10 | He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived . |
| 11 | He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to . |
| 12 | His interest began when he first opened the garden and found that many visitors wanted seeds from his 10 aquilegias . |
| 13 | But the point was that random access memories never existed when he first did this . |
| 14 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 15 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 16 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 17 | All this assumes , of course , that the doctor 's duty demands that he first satisfy himself that the patient is capable of making a rational decision . |
| 18 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |
| 19 | Everyone connected with The Championships , however , not least the world 's top players , know that Jim 's expertise and determination , steadily developed since he first began working with grass at Shepherd 's Bush Cricket Club in 1950 , before going on to spend 25 years at St George 's Hill , had more than silenced all the criticism which was developing about the state of the Wimbledon courts in the early 1980's . |
| 20 | We love because he first loved us . |
| 21 | He chose a piece of smooth parchment and began to write down everything that had happened since he first went to the Springall mansion . |
| 22 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 23 | ‘ They must have known when they sent them over , ’ he raged when he first went on short time . |
| 24 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 25 | Local man David Bellamy , whose environmental consultancy produced the film , said when he first came to Teesside at the age of 17 ‘ it was a really mucky , foully polluted place , ’ and he had witnessed the clean-up . |
| 26 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
| 27 | The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed . |
| 28 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |