Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grace writes that he studied first with a teacher he had met named Nina Runich ( an Austrian married to a Russian ) ; she used the stage name Nina Pavlochieva . |
| 2 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 3 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 4 | He felt the same surge of excitement , the same strong sexual awareness , he had felt when he had first held this sepia photograph in the early days of the summer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There had to be some around somewhere , from before he 'd quit smoking when he 'd first started to worry about his health . |
| 7 | She was so furious that she forgot that he had first asked for her trust . |
| 8 | With the meticulousness with which he was to become associated on each project , Dustin decided that he had first to get the voice of the 121-year-old man right . |
| 9 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |
| 10 | He walked slowly into Blue Horizons , longing for deep , knowing that he had first to face six anxious faces . |
| 11 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim . |
| 14 | And what the hell had happened when he 'd first met Rohmer ? |
| 15 | ‘ He more or less admits that he fired first . ’ |
| 16 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 17 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 18 | Rachel walked behind him , dishevelled , weary and full of resentment that Damian Flint should look as cool and immaculate as he had when he 'd first arrived . |
| 19 | Goalkeeper Alan Main fumbled a Glynn Snodin corner and , in the process , allowed Baird to scramble home his tenth goal of the season after John Robertson had failed to connect when he got first bite at the cherry . |
| 20 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 21 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |