Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The thought of him touching you first , holding you in his arms — yes , if I let it , it would drive me insane . ’ |
| 2 | Which was okay when he was younger ; his mother , she had helped him choose his first wigs ( even if he could not tell her the cause of his fright , all his hair was on the pillow ) . |
| 3 | Fell in love with the Duke of Athens ’ sweet little widow , and tried to get rid of the Patriarch of Constantinople when he would n't let him divorce his first wife . |
| 4 | Should 've got him to do it first . |
| 5 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you and Cindy plan — ’ but Ruth was coming into the room with a tray , setting it down on his desk , handing one of the white bone china cups with the delicate gold rim to Cashman , watching him take his first appreciative sip . |
| 7 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 8 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 9 | He made his first UK appearance last month , guest-starring at the Titiyo show at London 's Subterania . |
| 10 | After the 1979 season , Dave caddied for Michael King and Manuel Calero , then he made his first bid for the bag of Sandy Lyle . |
| 11 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 12 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 13 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 14 | Then , the day before Latowa 's death , he made his first contact with ‘ Charlie ’ . |
| 15 | He made his first important political appearance at the Socialist Congress in Tours in December 1920 . |
| 16 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |
| 17 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 18 | From 1940 , when he made his first broadcast as a quiz-master in the BBC radio series Ack , Ack , Beer , Beer , he was a constant broadcaster and in 1943 , by then stationed at the Air Ministry in London , he created and wrote with Squadron Leader Richard Murdoch the long-running radio series Much Binding in the Marsh , a take-off of a fictitious RAF station . |
| 19 | He made his first visit to Vesuvius in 1831 , and published Sketches of Vesuvius , with Short Accounts of its Principal Eruptions in 1832 . |
| 20 | In the same year he made his first parachute jump from an airship . |
| 21 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 22 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 23 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 24 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 25 | The ink was scarcely dry on the takeover agreement when he made his first inept move against me … |
| 26 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 27 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 28 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 29 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 30 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |