Example sentences of "first he [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
| 2 | To the first he gave five bags of gold , to the second , two bags , and to the third , one bag of gold . |
| 3 | At first he disliked this thought . |
| 4 | First he pretended two Angels found a wallet full of cash in New York and returned it to a pensioner who had been attacked . |
| 5 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |
| 6 | First he squeezed 60-year-old Jean 's hand as she sat by his bed . |
| 7 | At first he raced 125 production aboard a Honda NS 125 , before switching to open racing . |
| 8 | At first he showed some energy , but as recalcitrance persisted on both sides this quickly exhausted itself . |