Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
| 2 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 3 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 4 | He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting . |
| 5 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't since the way Lou Gent fought against me in my first title defence . ’ |
| 7 | His wife of 37 years , Nesta , stood by him during his first public humiliation . |