Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 2 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 3 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 4 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 5 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 6 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 7 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 8 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 9 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 10 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 11 | Sealey has been kept out of the first team picture at Villa by Nigel Spink . |