Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that I felt the first cobweb — one sticky tendril , unbelievably strong , across my right eye and the bridge of my nose . |
| 2 | And it was then , in that moment , that she felt the first twitch of anxiety . |
| 3 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
| 5 | Oldham , who have now gone seven away games without a win , will rue the fact that they dominated the first half but failed to turn it to advantage . |
| 6 | It was while he was travelling to South Africa in 1899 via India that he became the first man ever to take a cine-film of a total eclipse of the sun . |