Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 2 | William got in first , and sat at the front . |
| 3 | Wainfleet got in first . |
| 4 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 5 | I told him I wanted to know what labour felt like first . |
| 6 | A soft animal noise like gargling Dot thought at first must be Gloria 's breathing . |
| 7 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 8 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 9 | Faldo won at first extra hole . |
| 10 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 11 | Form an equation and solve it to find how much Gregory had at first . |
| 12 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 13 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |
| 14 | Mr Edgar refused at first , and Linton sent him several more letters . |
| 15 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 16 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 17 | Gunning the engine , Trent slammed into first gear and eased the motor cycle diagonally upriver . |
| 18 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 19 | Washington tried to first to mediate between Britain and Iran . |
| 20 | We want to get views of St Albans District Council am I told erm that last Thursday evening in the snow , er Counc St Albans Council came through first er to erm agree it . |
| 21 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 22 | Or so Tallis thought at first . |
| 23 | Broomhead had at first considered giving the woman a salutation from his vast treasury of filthy language when she approached him , but he realised that it might damage his rather good reputation . |
| 24 | The ‘ Singing Budgie ’ and ‘ We Hate Kylie ’ campaign had at first seemed impotent against the simple , unquenchable ambition of Kylie . |
| 25 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
| 26 | Isobel objected at first . |
| 27 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 28 | After an amazing cross country round yesterday with her agile horse Knockdrin Vina finished in first position with 49 points after the dressage , and is hoping for a clear round today to win the £1,500 national championship and title . |
| 29 | Dickens knew at first hand from his own childhood what it was to live the life of the poor . |
| 30 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |