Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 2 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 3 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 4 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
| 5 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 6 | Then he began to shift the first screen and leaned it against an adjoining stretch of wall . |
| 7 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 8 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 9 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 10 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 11 | He had lost the first action in 1926 , failed on appeal and finally won the action in 1934 . |
| 12 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 13 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 14 | He had played the first round , but before he had a chance even to hit a ball in the second he was out of the pre-qualifier , suffering from injuries he had received in a car accident with his caddie . |
| 15 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 16 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 17 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 18 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 19 | By June , however , he had sent the first draft of three scenes to Browne and asked him if it was worth continuing . |
| 20 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 21 | By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time , mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour . |
| 22 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 23 | He had designed the first ‘ luxury ’ cinemas in the land , the most famous of which was the Regent in Brighton , showing that you could be lavish without being vulgar . |
| 24 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 25 | After he had drawn the first furrow in the stetch he returned alongside , ploughing a second furrow against the first , thus completing the laying of the top or centre-furrows — in shape , exactly like the ridge of a roof . |
| 26 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 27 | The King had ridden everywhere that autumn , but he had spent longest with Thor and Dunegal and Leofwine in Cumbria , where he had gleaned the first tidings of Duke William 's victory against his rebel kinsmen . |
| 28 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 29 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 30 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |