Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't got enough background information ’ ; ‘ I 've got to find out about the First World War , and I 'm not sure how to begin . ’ |
| 2 | He had badly wanted to sign off with a first victory in Adelaide and a record 10th in a single season . |
| 3 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 4 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 5 | Having driven thirty miles and for fifty minutes , he is forced to slow down for the first time . |