Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 2 | If your household is likely to expand in any way it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a larger model than the more modest affair you had thought of first . |
| 3 | As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way . |
| 4 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 5 | She seemed calm enough but the fit she had thrown on first wakening was fresh in his mind . |