Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 2 | Microport Inc , Scotts Valley , California , which recently became the first non-hardware licensee of Unix System Laboratories Inc 's unannounced System V.4.2 ES/MP , has started shipping an ANSI C Compiler for Intel Corp 's Pentium processor from Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 3 | Microport Inc , Scotts Valley , California , which recently became the first non-hardware licensee of Unix System Lab 's unannounced SVR4.2 ES/MP , has started shipping an ANSI C Compiler for Intel Corp 's Pentium processor from Unix System Labs . |
| 4 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 5 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 6 | It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned . |
| 7 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 8 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 9 | ‘ I think he really enjoyed the first few , then the stories and the music got so trite , but he 'd go ahead and do them . |
| 10 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |
| 11 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |