Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
2 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
3 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
4 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
5 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
6 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
7 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
8 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
9 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
10 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
11 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
12 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
13 | What he got in the first |
14 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
15 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
16 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
17 | ‘ We 're gon na play some DEVIL SATAN WOCK AND WOLL MUSIC ! ! ! ’ announces Fabulous ' strangely Mr Bean-like guitarist to the severe bemusement of a hall full of Farm fans , as he launches into the first of two bloody many dismal three-chord punk thrashes , and on struts Simon Dudfield , oozing ugliness from every pore . |
18 | He moved towards the first Apache , holding his drink , his elbow sliding along the edge of the bar until he was right next to the Apache . |
19 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
20 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
21 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
22 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
23 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
24 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
25 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
26 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
27 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
28 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
29 | There , he sailed through a first class honours degree in maths . |
30 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |