Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 2 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 3 | Sitting on the edge of the bed , Tug balanced the tray on his knees and began to cut up the first beefburger . |
| 4 | She trudged slowly behind Evelyn , who took the cloth and started to rub out the first word with painstaking precision . |
| 5 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 6 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 7 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 8 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 9 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 10 | And then Adam had read aloud the first definition : |