Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vanishing ! ’ they exclaimed , hearing the nacarena 's voice pour through the pulled blinds from the house marked with black crosses and hung with newly dyed banners of death ; women 's voices , giving birth to the eternal soul , were louder than the priest 's obsequies , the relatives ' rosaries , and the lullabies they sang after the first birth , the entry into the mortal transit . |
| 2 | They also fully deserved the three sets they earned in the first three rubbers and with a little bit of luck would have had a least three more . |
| 3 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 4 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 5 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 6 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |