Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember crying out the first time , " It hurts ! " and Lang saying grimly , " It 's meant to . " |
| 2 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 3 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 4 | It 's like the school big boy who 's beaten up a first year and |
| 5 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 6 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 7 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 8 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |