Example sentences of "he have first [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 2 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 3 | His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face . |
| 4 | It was fresh from the margins of that land he 'd first suspected in New York . |
| 5 | She 'd sensed something when he 'd first stood in the garden with the children ; she 'd sensed it when she 'd opened the hall door to him . |
| 6 | He was n't wearing the ridiculously inadequate suit in which he 'd first appeared in the village on that same spot . |
| 7 | It was odd that he 'd first spoken to her in English when he could n't possibly have known … |
| 8 | She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door . |
| 9 | But despite his permanent paralysis and great physical and mental suffering , Akpata has not lost any love of the game or rugby , which he had first viewed as a boy in Scotland . |
| 10 | Bobby Anscombe , who had reacted badly when he had first heard of the deaf-aid idea , was forced to admit at the end that it might work . |
| 11 | She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession . |
| 12 | His belief in the politics of the middle way , which he had first expressed in the years of high unemployment in the 1930s , were easily reconstructed into modern Keynesianism . |
| 13 | Armed with a book on Scottish castles and an Ordnance Survey map , they drove from Dumfries to Caithness in search of a wreck to salvage , until Stewart remembered the castle he had first seen as an architectural student . |
| 14 | It was the Smith and Wesson Chiefs Special revolver that he had first seen in the Number One dressing room of the Prince 's Theatre , Taunton . |
| 15 | The thing was hunched , but even so , Cardiff could see that it was at least nine feet tall and somehow impossibly larger than the burnt corpse he had first seen behind the wheel of that car . |
| 16 | There was on her lips the slightly sulky look he had first noticed in her the night before , but she was fighting . |
| 17 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 18 | So he reached Camp David , the presidential dacha which he had first suspected of being an outpost of the American Gulag . |
| 19 | Karelius coped by employing a technique he had first developed at university and perfected in the army : that of chewing and swallowing whilst managing to divorce his mind completely from the organs of taste . |
| 20 | Eight-year-old Gerald pauses mid-way through extracting the marrow from a colobus bone with a short stick ( held between thumb and forefinger ) , which he had first stripped of leaves and broken to length . |
| 21 | She was so furious that she forgot that he had first asked for her trust . |
| 22 | He had first checked from the window that the taxi he had telephoned was waiting . |
| 23 | He had first gone to a psychotherapist because he felt he was a failure , and now he was going to help him cope with success . |
| 24 | He had first reported to Donleavy on the use of counterfeit money for DEA stings during the 1987 season , after Dany Habib had produced a sample from his desk drawer , but it was soon clear from what he observed at Eurame that this , too , had become standard operating procedure in his absence . |
| 25 | He felt comfortable now watching the black faces on the pavement , screwed up against the drizzle , but remembered his resentment when he had first learned of his posting . |
| 26 | Kanemaru reportedly said , however , that he had first learned of the involvement of Inagawa-kai on Dec. 23 , 1987 , whereas Watanabe had already stated that Kanemaru had called on him in September 1987 to ask Ishii to suppress the Nihon Kiminto campaign . |
| 27 | And the team talks he had first started at Leeds heightened their sense of involvement . |
| 28 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |
| 29 | When he had first arrived at the then strange , adult world of Carewscourt , he had been delighted to find another boy of his own age living on the estate . |
| 30 | Whitlock had been going to Le Chantilly restaurant on East 57th Street since he had first arrived in New York in 1980 . |