Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paula 's a lot better he slept first time last night right through without |
| 2 | Obviously he had first to complete his medrese education , though neither the Kanunname nor the biographical sources give much guidance as to precisely what stages he had to pass through . |
| 3 | He was supposed to go down well he did go to a meeting , but in he comes first of all . |
| 4 | But this time she had no objection to make whatsoever when tenderly , unhurriedly he undid first one shoulder-strap , and then the other . |
| 5 | And if it proves to be Berowne 's blood , then he died first , unless , of course , he staggered across to Harry after making one or more of the superficial cuts in his own throat . |
| 6 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 9 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 10 | JOHN Harding proved he was top of the spots when he came first in Alexandra Pottery 's annual dominoes competition . |
| 11 | For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman . |
| 12 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |
| 13 | He called his future domicile Belmont , for it stood on the high ground , with a view sweeping down through the coconut palms to the shore where he had first landed that night he took possession . |
| 14 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 15 | As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance . |
| 16 | Sandra faded beside him , returned to the pages of the magazine where he had first seen her . |
| 17 | In 1961 he travelled to Brazil where he lived first under the name Peter Hochbichler until taking the name Gerhard in 1976 . |