Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 2 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 3 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 4 | But it was the failure of the Windscale Inquiry to represent adequately the protesters ' arguments which encouraged the first example of direct action in this country . |
| 5 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 6 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 7 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 8 | Yes , these are the very same thoughts which marred the first tour . |
| 9 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |