Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |
| 5 | For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance . |
| 9 | Sandra faded beside him , returned to the pages of the magazine where he had first seen her . |