Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [vb past] the 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 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yes , these are the very same thoughts which marred the first tour . |
| 5 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |