Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he reached Camp David , the presidential dacha which he had first suspected of being an outpost of the American Gulag . |
| 2 | But despite his permanent paralysis and great physical and mental suffering , Akpata has not lost any love of the game or rugby , which he had first viewed as a boy in Scotland . |
| 3 | His belief in the politics of the middle way , which he had first expressed in the years of high unemployment in the 1930s , were easily reconstructed into modern Keynesianism . |
| 4 | Eight-year-old Gerald pauses mid-way through extracting the marrow from a colobus bone with a short stick ( held between thumb and forefinger ) , which he had first stripped of leaves and broken to length . |
| 5 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 6 | British Moslem leaders claimed that the ban was an example of British double standards , since there had been no ban on Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses , for which he had first been condemned to death by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989 [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ] . |
| 7 | He was n't wearing the ridiculously inadequate suit in which he 'd first appeared in the village on that same spot . |
| 8 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |