Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] after [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 2 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 3 | Also , because the rats ’ behaviour changed immediately after the first reinforcement trial , Tolman argued that the results obtained could only occur if the rats had earlier developed a cognitive map , that is the mental representation of the particular special arrangement of the maze . |
| 4 | The RPR candidate , Charles Pasqua dropped out after the first round . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |
| 7 | 1 knew straightaway after the first month . |
| 8 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |