Example sentences of "then [prep] the first [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes .
2 Then for the first time he noticed how much noise the rats were making .
3 Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win .
4 Basically they 're just telling the Party to consider the demands of the peasants and do what the peasants want but then er then in the first paragraph they say that you ought to erm they ought to support the masses in their erm implementation of agrarian reform , you have to give them planned guidance so it 's almost that how they 're telling the cadres to go out there and almost manipulate the peasants demands into more of a communist one .
5 And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture .
6 The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection .
7 The Russian heroic tenor , Alexei Steblianko , from the Kirov in Leningrad is the least comfortable with a French accent , but then on the first night he was battling with a throat infection .
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