Example sentences of "that [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the shock of being included , of being swept up in the word women that came first . |
| 2 | There was one particular teacher ; if you done sports for him , that came first . |
| 3 | It was always hearing that returned first . |
| 4 | And the game well Wembley can be the kindest … and yet cruelest of places … for once the cliches came true … it was the team that settled first the side that scored the opening goal that won but what a victory … what a battle … and what an opening goal … |
| 5 | The plans would have to be altered accordingly and that meant first attending to some unfinished business at Lausanne station . |
| 6 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 7 | The two books of Préludes are divided between two discs , being coupled respectively with La boîte à joujoux and a miscellany including the Six e/1pigraphs antiques in the composer 's own transcription from the version for piano duet that appeared first . |
| 8 | Three times in the next ten days the beacons passed news from point to point — from Rubha Nan Gall across the Sound of Mull to Castle Nan Con , back to Aros , across to Ardtornish and back again to Duart — that the threat that had first been hinted in Luch 's arrival had taken solid shape . |
| 9 | It was struggling vainly to free itself , bleating weakly , but suddenly letting out the long , piping , despairing cry that had first arrested Deborah 's attention . |
| 10 | It was Miss Hazelwood that had first told her about her Guardian Angel . |
| 11 | It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life . |
| 12 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 13 | It was such a discussion that had first brought Isobel and Anna together . |
| 14 | It was at a family gathering , though one very different from what was now taking place in Tace Way , that had first alerted Stephen to the true facts of his descent . |
| 15 | At last , Jimmy was telling the story that had first prompted Cardiff to seek him out and bring him here . |
| 16 | Betrayal , the theme that had first entered Harry 's head in Burford , recurred to his mind now as the link between all the widely spaced events that had borne down on Heather Mallender . |