Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] the 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 Stephen had turned down the first set of plans out of hand .
4 They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue .
5 They had slipped down the First Division , losing five consecutive League matches .
6 And then Adam had read aloud the first definition :
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