Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 2 | He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he obtained first classes in each part of the classical tripos ( 1896 and 1897 ) . |
| 3 | He was educated at Nottingham High School , Rugby School , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained first classes in both parts of the classical tripos ( 1908 and 1909 ) , in part ii specializing in archaeology , and won several classical prizes . |
| 4 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 5 | In his Chiswick-based headquarters , where The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition was pieced together , Neil Storey explained how the project was more complex than he had first imagined . |
| 6 | There was evidently more to this alien antiquity than he had first supposed . |
| 7 | The purchaser of records had to send three wrappers for each record , so he had first to acquire them . |
| 8 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 9 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 10 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 11 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 12 | you know plenty of other little girls that would want to look after him , and I said it 's no good relying on Vicky because she , the little sister , she 's nine , she was too young to do things by herself , you know , I said there 's no way you can let , leave it all to Vicky , so that if you do n't want him any more you must tell me and I said there 'll be no hard feelings but that 's it , cos he comes first at the end of the day , so she said oh I , oh I have been naughty have you been ? |
| 13 | Since he became first their prisoner and then their enforced guest , Nicholas had rarely met all his present masters ; and had thought it best not to seek their company . |
| 14 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 15 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 16 | She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession . |
| 17 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 18 | Whitlock had been going to Le Chantilly restaurant on East 57th Street since he had first arrived in New York in 1980 . |
| 19 | If Alain had been intrigued by her colouring since he had first seen her then why had n't Marguerite said so ? |
| 20 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 21 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 22 | In 1868 , a mere two years after he had first begun his course in Cheltenham , he left London and his family again — for good , this time . |
| 23 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 24 | Then the inner sanctum ; precisely one hour after he 'd first been called ; he was sure it was deliberate . |
| 25 | He could n't remember quite when he had first visited the shop but , like Wimbledon itself , it had always been there . |
| 26 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 27 | When he had first arrived at the then strange , adult world of Carewscourt , he had been delighted to find another boy of his own age living on the estate . |
| 28 | The doctor , when he had first seen her , had awakened a creature deep within him that he had thought would sleep for ever — until the day he died . |
| 29 | But then , as Christian acidly remarked , his friend Edouard was a man of many parts — not just one , which he had suspected when he had first met Edouard in London . |
| 30 | Now that he was a man he was no more capable of working unsupervised than when he had first come to the farm at the age of twelve . |