Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 2 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 3 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 4 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 5 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 6 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 7 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 8 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 9 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 10 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 11 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 12 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 13 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 14 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 15 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 16 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 17 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |