Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |
2 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
3 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
4 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
5 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
6 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
7 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
8 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
9 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
10 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
11 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
12 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
13 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
14 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
15 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |