Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 2 | The might of Gloucester beaten by bottom of the table , West Hartlepool , who 'd never won a first division game before . |
| 3 | Hence the dress and hat which sent the photographers into ecstasy in Melbourne and generally created far more attention and comment than the match in which she had successfully defeated the first of her 1991 Grand Slam titles . |
| 4 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 5 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 6 | She had just stuck the first stamp on the envelope when a friendly voice behind her said : ‘ Can you manage all right , missy , or do you want a lift up ? ’ |
| 7 | He was suffering from exhaustion and cold after helping co-climber Harry Taylor , who had earlier become the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without oxygen equipment . |
| 8 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 9 | The Block , built by J.J. Oakes & Son , was duly opened on Speech Day , 17th July 1957 , appropriately by Professor Williams , who had recently become the first recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts , " to individuals who have attained early distinction , with promise of future achievements , in the promotion of arts , manufacture , and commerce " . |
| 10 | If , when you left the machine , you had already knitted the first row of the cycle , when you return you 'll knit two more of the same row , making a total of three . |
| 11 | This awful and we 'd actually got the first window here which is which is . |
| 12 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 13 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 14 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |