Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 2 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 3 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 4 | The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity . |
| 5 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 6 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 8 | As a result , I drank more than was sensible in my condition : like a lot of women , I always felt more unwell during the first three months of pregnancy than afterwards , and alcohol went to my head very quickly . |
| 9 | She felt triumphantly free for the first time in her life . |
| 10 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 11 | Alexander extended Russia 's borders further west than ever and they remained essentially unchanged until the First World War . |