Example sentences of "first [noun sg] he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English . |
| 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 | Twice in the first half he had a clear-cut chance to score , but both times opted for the spectacular overhead kick when a safe , sure-footed shot would have sufficed . |
| 5 | Now the château was Sharpe 's home , the first home he had truly known . |
| 6 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 7 | It was the first place he had come to in his own right , with something to give . |
| 8 | In the first place he had only approached Rufus because Rufus had a car . |
| 9 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | lt was almost the first remark he had addressed to me all evening . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 16 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
| 17 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 18 | By his first wife he had a son , Richard . |
| 19 | It was the first suit he had ever owned and three sizes too big . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | How could he forget the first daemon he had combatted in full knowledge of its nature ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cellulose flake manager was 46 when he obtained his NEBOSH qualification — the first exam he had sat for 26 years . |
| 24 | This was the first thought he had ever had of the commune , it was at that moment it first came to him , out on the terrace sitting beside Rufus under Hilbert 's umbrella , while the Vermstroy man hunted his quarry along the woodland streams and Mary pursued him with cries of protest . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 27 | In the first pass he had already claimed one at 0938 , Uffz . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |