Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds
2 So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look .
3 So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes
4 So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear .
5 His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs .
6 Perhaps he witnessed the first assault .
7 So he had the first name of somebody famous .
8 Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship .
9 So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA .
10 Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia .
11 Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life !
12 ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc .
13 Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office .
14 Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country .
15 Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving .
16 A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party .
17 Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him .
18 Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds .
19 Instead she blurted the first thing that came into her head .
20 Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand .
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