Example sentences of "first [noun] [conj] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 2 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 3 | Oxford Crown Court was told that Cannon , who 's from Bristol , struck the first blow because he thought he was about to be attacked . |
| 4 | It was Wycliffe , giving the first indication that he had followed her argument , and she became flustered . |
| 5 | They were really the first nudes that he had done since Jane Birkin posed topless in the Sixties . |
| 6 | Put it into first gear and he said , and the light went out , he said oh yes that 's fine . |
| 7 | King drew first blood when he took the opening set 7-5 , thanks mainly to counts of 3 on the first and third ends , but Corsie 's reply was immediate : a 7-1 second-set triumph in five ends . |
| 8 | King drew first blood when he took the opening set 7-5 , thanks mainly to counts of 3 on the first and third ends , but Corsie 's reply was immediate : a 7-1 second-set triumph in five ends . |
| 9 | That was Coyle 's second goal , the first coming when he took a perfectly angled pass from Lawrence , and from the classic inside-right position stroked the ball to the net via the base of Goram 's right-hand post . |
| 10 | I thought , I 'll tell you who he used to remind me of , cos I sta he started coming to me when he had his first car and he reminded me yo ma , you know erm Seventy Seventy Sunset Strip ? |
| 11 | When we started rehearsing , we arrived at the cello 's first entry and he came in with a dreadful slow grumbling noise . |
| 12 | There was an anxious moment in the first half when he caught the ball at the third attempt , but overall he was sound . |
| 13 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 14 | Sandwith made a rare error midway round the first lap when he clipped a corner and lost speed . |
| 15 | It was some time after making his first confession that he bumped into a pupil in Addison 's Walk . |
| 16 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 17 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 18 | But Forest , who only let Walker go in the first place because he had a release clause in his contract , will also be in the hunt . |
| 19 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 20 | ‘ It was his first job and he locked himself away for the day with a feather and a bottle of wine , ’ remembers Sally . |
| 21 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 22 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 23 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 24 | She had been too aware of him since their first meeting and he knew it . |
| 25 | The first picture that he painted on moving into 5 Shaftesbury Villas was a portrait of the Observer art critic Nevile Wallis ( Plate 15 ) . |
| 26 | She had divorced her first husband because he showed signs of becoming like her father , and now , at her second attempt , the man she had married , while not apparently planning to emulate her parent , yet found him admirable . |
| 27 | The first forest that he imposed upon the world is the world in which I live and through which you are journeying . |
| 28 | In the movies they always seemed to make the kidnapped party drive , but Maxim thought about Dann driving his — Maxim 's — car into the first acacia while he watched the gun , which seemed to have hypnotised him . |
| 29 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 30 | You know , he sent me with a message to his first wife before he died . |