Example sentences of "he be [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's going first of all it 's |
| 2 | On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap . |
| 3 | At this point blows were exchanged , Mullan claiming that he was hit first . |
| 4 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 5 | He was posted first to the Artillery , but then transferred to the Royal Engineers because he had a driving licence . |
| 6 | He was followed first by Hawkbit and then by Fiver . |
| 7 | He managed to escape from the car and struggle to nearby houses where he was given first aid . |
| 8 | He was flying first class to LAX , where he would be met by a uniformed chauffeur who would convey him by limousine or courtesy car to the Pinnacle Trumont on the Avenue of the Stars . |
| 9 | He was sent first to the Benedictines at Vernon Hall , Lancashire , then in 1802 to Stonyhurst , and finally in 1806 to St Edmund 's College , Ware . |
| 10 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 11 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 12 | The drama happened as he was giving First Aid to rider Kevin Mitchell who had been involved in a crash but was not seriously injured . |
| 13 | After spending an itinerant early childhood he was educated first at an eccentric preparatory school intended for the sons of Christian Scientists , St Michael 's in Uckfield , Sussex , and later at Repton , from where , at the age of sixteen , he ran away . |
| 14 | He was educated first in Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , and then , owing to illness , at home where he had the run of a large library . |
| 15 | He was promoted first lieutenant in November 1914 and captain nine months later . |
| 16 | Twice shot down , wounded , and now a captain , he was grounded first at the War Office , later with the RFC headquarters in France , and finally at the Air Council before a posting to Washington ( now a major ) with the British Aviation Mission in June 1918 , in his twenty-second year . |