Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wasmes he lived at first with a baker called Jean-Baptiste Denis and his wife Esther . |
| 2 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 3 | He ruled at first in a subordinate position to his brother , Aethelberht ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but whether or not the Aethelberht , king of Kent , who died in 762 ( ASC A , s.a. 760 ) , is to be identified with Aethelberht , son of Wihtred , has been disputed . |
| 4 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 5 | And , never having met such an abominable man , she actually heard herself telling him just how large the mortgage on the apartment was , and , while she was recovering from having actually told him something she regarded as no one 's business but her own , and was taking another breath to rage on , he got in first . |
| 6 | She opened her mouth — he got in first . |
| 7 | Leith closed the door with an angry thud , then opened her mouth to let fly — but he got in first . |
| 8 | Agrippa , although he objected at first , reluctantly consented to write out the warrants and disburse the necessary silver for our journeys . |
| 9 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 10 | He 'd at first said , ‘ wild flowers ’ , but I reminded him of what had happened at Caroline 's wedding . |
| 11 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 12 | ‘ Paysage d'Harfleur ’ , dated 1900 , reveals his debt to the Impressionists , and there are works he painted on first arriving in Paris , after ten years spent at Le Havre with Dufy and Friesz . |
| 13 | He graduated with first class honours in oil technology from Imperial College London and his early career was spent with Amoco and Shell working in the UK , Netherlands , Guyana and Australia . |
| 14 | After returning to the Reds , he signed for First Division Stoke , making his debut at Goodison and playing his final match at Anfield . |
| 15 | ‘ He called in first thing . |
| 16 | When the King saw me , he thought at first that I must be a mechanical toy . |
| 17 | When he saw the black-haired woman sitting beside the stream , he thought at first she was simply another ephemeral vision transmitted by the trees . |
| 18 | He learned at first hand the economic geography of the regnum francorum . |
| 19 | The real reason was that he felt at ease ; he was no longer a figure of fun or an eyesore , he had a place — just as he did at first with Sien . |
| 20 | He hesitated at first , then put his hand on her shoulder . |
| 21 | He had at first intended to drive straight to Jack 's house in Chelsea . |
| 22 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 23 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 24 | When Shinwell discussed the men from the industry to be appointed to the senior positions , he had at first wanted two deputy chairmen , one to look after generation and the other to oversee distribution and the Area Boards , but Citrine proposed an alternative division between operations and administration , feeling that it was ‘ essential to have someone familiar with the operation of large-scale organisations ’ . |
| 25 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 26 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 27 | Lesley-Anne Rawlings , prosecuting , said he had at first claimed he had gone into the school on August 9 to try and put the fire out . |
| 28 | He said that when the hijacker commandeered the plane over Austria , he had at first ordered the crew to fly directly to New York , but had been persuaded of the need to refuel . |
| 29 | Capt Goebel said that when Demeke commandeered the plane over Austria , he had at first ordered the crew to fly directly to New York , but had been persuaded to refuel . |
| 30 | When at last Hazel had got him back to the ditch , he refused at first to go underground and Hazel had almost to push him down the hole . |