Example sentences of "[noun] he have first " in BNC.

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1 Before he left for his six weeks stay in Swindon that spring he had first called her ‘ sweet ’ , she recalled four months later , ‘ in the little passage , near the willows , near the farm ’ on Wandsworth Common .
2 The Tess he had first loved had separated her body from her soul .
3 After graduating from Sandhurst Military College with the coveted Sword of Honour he had first seen active duty in Korea where he suffered a serious leg injury while attempting to rescue a wounded colleague .
4 The thing was hunched , but even so , Cardiff could see that it was at least nine feet tall and somehow impossibly larger than the burnt corpse he had first seen behind the wheel of that car .
5 He had , she decided , recognised that her business did not represent the handicap he had first imagined and abandoned his quest .
6 And he was no longer armed — he had hurled the Walther taken from Steve into the sea at Walberswick , followed by the magazine he 'd first extracted .
7 Sharpe was loading fast , going through the drill he had first learned twenty-two years before .
8 His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face .
9 There was on her lips the slightly sulky look he had first noticed in her the night before , but she was fighting .
10 Then , disappearing up the stairs in the wake of the landlord 's candle , like the ghost he had first thought her , she vanished out of his life .
11 Karelius coped by employing a technique he had first developed at university and perfected in the army : that of chewing and swallowing whilst managing to divorce his mind completely from the organs of taste .
12 Then he repaid into a High Commission Jamaican dollar account the equivalent , in official-rate Jamaican dollars , of the amount of US dollars he had first removed .
13 And he liked Gamal , whose acquaintance he had first made when working on one of his earliest cases as Mamur Zapt .
14 And the team talks he had first started at Leeds heightened their sense of involvement .
15 It was fresh from the margins of that land he 'd first suspected in New York .
16 Ranulf thought of the Lady Agnes and moaned ; she had proved a fiery lover from the time he had first flung her on her back and lifted her lace-trimmed skirts .
17 Armed with a book on Scottish castles and an Ordnance Survey map , they drove from Dumfries to Caithness in search of a wreck to salvage , until Stewart remembered the castle he had first seen as an architectural student .
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