Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] first [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody .
2 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 .
3 Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer .
4 For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance .
8 Sandra faded beside him , returned to the pages of the magazine where he had first seen her .
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