Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] from [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 2 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 3 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 4 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 5 | Some of these hawthorns , with their gnarled , twisted and burnished trunks , probably date from the first enclosure of the fields five or six generations ago . |
| 6 | There was another major upset when Ross Norman , the sixth-seeded New Zealander who won the world title in 1986 by ending Jahangir Khan 's 51 2 -year unbeaten run , was also eliminated from the first round . |
| 7 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |