Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 6 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 7 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | What he got in the first |
| 12 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 13 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 17 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 18 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 23 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 24 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 25 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 26 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 27 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 28 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 29 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 30 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |