Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
2 | It was then that I felt the first cobweb — one sticky tendril , unbelievably strong , across my right eye and the bridge of my nose . |
3 | And it was then , in that moment , that she felt the first twitch of anxiety . |
4 | It appears that she created the first men by patting yellow earth together . |
5 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
6 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
7 | Oldham , who have now gone seven away games without a win , will rue the fact that they dominated the first half but failed to turn it to advantage . |
8 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |