Example sentences of "first [noun sg] he have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the first verb he 'd learned was ‘ to love ’ and the first noun ‘ a table ’ , bizarre beginnings to a vocabulary with no connection between the parts . |
| 2 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 3 | After parting from his jockey Macer Gifford at the very first fence he had continued with the rest of the field all the way round , clearing every obstacle and keeping with the herd . |
| 4 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 5 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 6 | He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ? |
| 7 | In the first place he has desired me to say he would write but for his constant occupation . |
| 8 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 9 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
| 10 | lt was almost the first remark he had addressed to me all evening . |
| 11 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 12 | From the first night he had met her , when she had stood up to him in his own house , he had been attracted to her . |
| 13 | They had never been able to like Sean Walsh , not since the very first day he had turned up at Benny 's tenth birthday party . |
| 14 | How could he forget the first daemon he had combatted in full knowledge of its nature ? |
| 15 | President Poincaré wrote gloomily in his diary : ‘ Encore une défaillance ! ‘ , revealing that this was not the first news he had received of a lapse of morale at Verdun . |
| 16 | Ron Beddis admits it 's the first frog he 's had to deal with . |
| 17 | Within this first week he has learned the difference between the touch of a finger and the touch of his nurse 's body . |
| 18 | Cellulose flake manager was 46 when he obtained his NEBOSH qualification — the first exam he had sat for 26 years . |
| 19 | STUDENT and part-time chef Michael Pearson has won a top national prize in the first competition he has entered . |
| 20 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 21 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 22 | It was the first thing he 'd said , all afternoon . |
| 23 | It was the first thing he 'd said the whole twenty miles . |
| 24 | The first thing he had done when he had come into the apartment had been to turn off the heating system , and then he had opened the window in his bedroom and the window in the sparsely furnished living room . |
| 25 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 26 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 27 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 28 | Miss Honiton 's book contained , as a frontispiece , the first image he had seen of Christabel , a brownish , very early photograph , veiled under a crackling , protective translucent page . |
| 29 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 30 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |