Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Quinn can give the bookmakers a caning today if he scores the first goal of the game . |
| 2 | Driver Colin McRae is champion for the second year running … he 's won all six rounds of the home championship … and if he becomes the first Brit since 76 to win the rally he 'll land the bonus prize of a hundred thousand pounds … |
| 3 | He knows that if he fails the first time , he 'll win the second time , if not the third time . |
| 4 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 5 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 6 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |
| 7 | But since he knew the first three elements of this expression before he observed his local price , it follows that the observation of his local price amounts to an observation of . |
| 8 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 9 | The news came on the day another record-breaker , Harry Taylor , 33 , returned home after he became the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without the aid of oxygen . |
| 10 | The world No3 launched his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 11 | World No3 White won 5-4 , launching his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 12 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 13 | The CEGB know it , the local authority know it , we know it , you know it , and the inspector appointed to carry out the inevitable inquiry will know it before he hears the first evidence . |
| 14 | The right hon. Gentleman should get out of the habit of writing his supplementary questions before he hears the first answer . |
| 15 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 16 | The Merkut clan was camped along the curve of a small lake , and when he saw the first yurts Burun kicked his st'lyan into a gallop , his spirit soaring with anticipation . |
| 17 | The hero was being filmed taking his 10-month-old baby to the pool when he gets the first indication he is going to be threatened . |
| 18 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 19 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 20 | When he reached the first breakwater , Simon turned and waved . |
| 21 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 22 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 23 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 24 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 25 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 26 | This was the stark warning given by Professor David Harvey of Newcastle University , when he presented the first in a series of Northern Foods ' milk industry papers . |
| 27 | There was a pause when he ended the First Mystery . |
| 28 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 29 | Hertz confirmed Maxwell 's theory when he detected the first radio waves . |
| 30 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |