Example sentences of "he [verb] first [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 2 | As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance . |
| 3 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 4 | It was with Laura that he had first tried hang-gliding , drunk tequila , fished in Alaska , eaten salt-water taffy , read Proust , watched a blue movie . |
| 5 | As controller of the Audit Commission before taking over at the helm of the CBI last year , Mr Davies said he had first had experience of the Government 's approach to industry and commerce . |
| 6 | In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage , Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her . |
| 7 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 8 | He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base . |