Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | I addressed first two ancient problems : the relationship between Luke and Acts ( I found that Acts resembled Luke more than it resembled any other book of the NT ) and the relationship between the Apocalypse and the Gospel of St John ( I found that they differed from each other more than any other two books of the NT ) . |
| 32 | ‘ When I first came up from Balclutha , Hilda said what I needed first was a good wife but Jan here said what I needed first was a couple of good horses . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ When I first came up from Balclutha , Hilda said what I needed first was a good wife but Jan here said what I needed first was a couple of good horses . ’ |
| 34 | Well , we used to work from eight to half-past five and then from eight to half-past twelve , fifty-two and half hours , when I started first . |
| 35 | When I started first it was five pounds a year . |
| 36 | However , it was a D. Davidson that I rang first as the address was familiar . |
| 37 | I looked first into the dining-room window . |
| 38 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 39 | I thought first of all that I 'd wait for the newspaper reports of the killing and use those as an excuse . |
| 40 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 41 | I went first to the Children 's Hospital in Birmingham . |
| 42 | Kaz and I went first ; what a thrill it was . |
| 43 | I went first to Sheikha Grandmother to make my good morning , then greeted all the others in turn . |
| 44 | When I went first went to work at a laundry . |
| 45 | When I went first he took one out there and he took it out clean , but this one here , in actual fact he gave me a stitch , and when the stitch was n't in you could see the tooth protruding a bit . |
| 46 | I went first to his business premises . |
| 47 | Well er I went when I was when I went first went and do you know I went into the to the place and do you know I run away from the place . |
| 48 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 49 | If I took First B. Mus. at the College I could go to Oxford and take Second B. Mus. there , and afterwards write my Exercise — as that was financially possible for them . |
| 50 | Erm I did first science exam a little while ago |
| 51 | I won first prizes for the best garment and for the most knitted in my class . |
| 52 | Yes , I won first prize ! |
| 53 | But I said first ‘ independent ’ and then maybe ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 54 | Back to what I said first — break a leg . ’ |
| 55 | I said first of all you 've got to get out . |
| 56 | I said first time I came . |
| 57 | That 's what I said first , I said ooh they 'd had a terrible job ! |
| 58 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 59 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 60 | Until six weeks ago I had first class service , then , suddenly , the crankshaft snapped . |