Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 2 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |
| 3 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 4 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 5 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 6 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 7 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 8 | plays on , he plays for the first team normally I think . |
| 9 | Yohan , an old man , was moved to tears as he read a tract , as he realised for the first time how much God loved him . |
| 10 | ‘ So you will not consider me , after all our friendship ? ’ he asked , and Emily moved restlessly ; he realised for the first time that all her movements were studied . |
| 11 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 12 | ‘ He hopped on the first plane back to Germany . ’ |
| 13 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 14 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 15 | He fought in the first World War and died in the Aegean in 1915 at the age of 27 . |
| 16 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 17 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 18 | and said that Christopher was on interview and er if he got through the first part to the second part he would in the afternoon he would give us a ph a ring , erm but he , by ten to two he had n't phoned so she assumed he was on his way back having |
| 19 | What he got in the first |
| 20 | Though he admitted for the first time he was the author of his own downfall , he spent much of his speech attacking the press . |
| 21 | In doing so , however , he admitted for the first time that he had made " every effort " to obtain the release of the hostages . |
| 22 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're gon na play some DEVIL SATAN WOCK AND WOLL MUSIC ! ! ! ’ announces Fabulous ' strangely Mr Bean-like guitarist to the severe bemusement of a hall full of Farm fans , as he launches into the first of two bloody many dismal three-chord punk thrashes , and on struts Simon Dudfield , oozing ugliness from every pore . |
| 24 | He moved towards the first Apache , holding his drink , his elbow sliding along the edge of the bar until he was right next to the Apache . |
| 25 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 26 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 27 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 28 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 30 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |