Example sentences of "came [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 2 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 3 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 4 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 5 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 6 | Instead , a message came through during the first part of the show that Sigourney loved Julian , and was asking specifically to be seated next to him . |
| 7 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 8 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 9 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 10 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 11 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 12 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 13 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |