Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Chelsea looked worthy of at least a point after Mick Harford 's 72nd minute goal had cancelled out a first half Saunders header . |
| 4 | Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand . |
| 5 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 6 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 7 | They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches . |
| 8 | And then Adam had read aloud the first definition : |