Example sentences of "[coord] we [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It was exciting — they were good advertisements , and we waited for the first children to come .
2 And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects .
3 There were five barges moored abreast here , and we climbed over the first four , greeting the startled crews as we went .
4 However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud .
5 We discuss this later version in the next section , but we begin with the first ( and now obsolete ) version of the logogen model since the evolution of the second version from the first is instructive .
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