Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
2 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
3 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
4 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
5 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
6 | Now let me try a first question on you . |
7 | I I do n't think you need the first |
8 | They do n't even know who built the first engine ? |
9 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |
10 | One facile answer I have heard , or read , to the question : How do you tell a first edition ? is : When there is no evidence that it is anything else . |
11 | How do you do the first one , yeah ? |
12 | ‘ When do you want the first payment ? ’ |