Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |
| 2 | Emile Faurie , from Gloucestershire , got them underway yesterday when he became the first Briton to reach 1600 marks and today Laura Fry was only 20 points below on Quarryman , while Richard Davison , the last of the team , won 1483 points on Master JCB . |
| 3 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 4 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 5 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 6 | remember when he hit the first stone and hit that car window |
| 7 | Mr Ashe , who received a supportive phone call yesterday from President Bush , shot to fame in 1968 when he won the first United States Open at a time when blacks were still largely excluded from professional tennis . |
| 8 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 9 | So in 1901 he decided to emigrate with his wife and two children to Australia , where he became the first full-time missioner of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria , which celebrated its centenary in 1984 . |
| 10 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 11 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 12 | He had decided that Sadler 's Wells was where he wanted the first performance . |
| 13 | He had been a scholar at Winchester and at Magdalen , where he gained a First in Law and got his Blue for cricket . |