Example sentences of "[noun sg] that he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 2 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 3 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 4 | Wordsworth himself recalled in old age that he had first met Coleridge , together with Southey , and Edith and Sara Fricker , at ‘ a lodging in Bristol ’ . |
| 5 | It was the Smith and Wesson Chiefs Special revolver that he had first seen in the Number One dressing room of the Prince 's Theatre , Taunton . |