Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC EXPECTED TO LAUNCH FIRST ALPHA PERSONAL COMPUTER ON MAY 25 |
| 2 | The bill was prepaid , so that he was away from the hotel before the front desk was manned , and the car had started first turn . |
| 3 | The only drawback to the course was the way my calves refused to move first thing in the morning ; the pluses ? — meeting and making new friends and returning home refreshed and energised in mind and body . |
| 4 | Christian MPs close to General Michel Aoun wanted to talk first about a Syrian withdrawal , in according with the general 's instructions . |
| 5 | Important work had to take first place . |
| 6 | Of course , it was a good toss to win and things might have been different if England had batted first . |
| 7 | They already had a lock on the number Zack had used first , but when he changed booths , even though the kiosks were side-by-side in Dunstable , they lost him . |
| 8 | Alexander said and Fred got served first . |
| 9 | The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first . |
| 10 | My theory therefore suggests that bands of young male hominids started to hunt first , while older , dominant males , encumbered with their harems and young , continued the traditional foraging . |
| 11 | Mala chose to go first , saying that she would check out the landing area for dangerous watchers and warn me if necessary when she sent the pod back up . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 13 | There was jubilation that a local team had come first . |
| 14 | There was one stratagem left to try first . |
| 15 | The pastorate had passed first to his brother ; on his death it had reverted to one of the famous preacher 's twin sons . |
| 16 | From this age group , the level began to increase first slowly ( infant mortality at the maternal age group 30–34 was lower than in the age group 20–24 ) and from age 35 more rapidly , although the mortality of infants born to women in the 35–39 years old group was not much higher than in the age group 20–24 which is often considered as the prime time for reproduction . |
| 17 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 18 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 19 | The theft rate began to drop first in the Interior region and then in the Intermediate area . |
| 20 | Marion had to speak first . |
| 21 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 22 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 23 | The Pathfinder squadrons continued to go first and drop their markers , but were not helped by unexpectedly adverse weather conditions over the target area . |
| 24 | The Jacobites had drawn first blood and totally defeated a regular force sent against them . |
| 25 | The book caused Robert Blatchford , editor of the socialist newspaper The Clarion , to write to Mr Carpenter in some concern : economic change had to come first , said Mr Blatchford , and it would therefore be better not to mention sex until after socialism had been achieved . |
| 26 | He got long , ill-spelt letters from Claire every week , telling him what Doyle had done , and how Mary the cook was going into hospital , and the Labrador had taken first prize at the Eadstown Field Day . |
| 27 | Buck had to putt first . |
| 28 | The Renault driver had engaged first and was tugging his tow-bar out of the radiator of the Jaguar . |
| 29 | Yesterday , or was it the day before yesterday , or when was it , he had gone first up the ladder on to Lord Jim , but Nenna had gone first into the cabin . |
| 30 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |