Example sentences of "first [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 2 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 3 | The Templars first built it as a fortified manor but later generations had embellished it to make it more comfortable . |
| 4 | INGLEBOROUGH HAS BEEN a favourite mountain of mine ever since I first climbed it as a young man . |
| 5 | I first saw him in a supporting role at the Croydon Rep in 1936 , where another young actor , seven years his junior , by the name of William Devlin , who dared to tackle King Lear at about the same time . |
| 6 | People certainly built last year who first saw us at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 7 | It was Chief Fyvie who first introduced me to the fine travelogue books of H.V. Morton when he loaned me a copy of ‘ In Search of Scotland ’ . |