Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] 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 | During the war he served first in the ranks in Mesopotamia and subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Air Force . |
| 5 | In retirement he lived first at Herringfleet Hall in Suffolk , where he was a justice of the peace , and then at Dedham House in Essex . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had , she decided , recognised that her business did not represent the handicap he had first imagined and abandoned his quest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In this area he builds first a small depression by removing mouthfuls of sand and then produces a nest from weeds which are coated with a sticky substance so that they can be moulded with his snout . |
| 10 | Sharpe was loading fast , going through the drill he had first learned twenty-two years before . |
| 11 | Biff could n't wait out those years , case he died first . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was on her lips the slightly sulky look he had first noticed in her the night before , but she was fighting . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Firstly , he needed to reform the army , and to this end he imported first Italian and later French experts . |
| 17 | And he liked Gamal , whose acquaintance he had first made when working on one of his earliest cases as Mamur Zapt . |
| 18 | It was fresh from the margins of that land he 'd first suspected in New York . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |