Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 2 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 4 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 5 | Mrs Singh asked ‘ Do you have the same holiday ? ’ and then spoke for the first time about Balbinder . |
| 6 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |