Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before returning to Milan they travelled first to Bologna and Leopold wrote to his wife : |
| 2 | Marguerite pulled herself together and led the way back into the room they had first entered . |
| 3 | He now knew less about her than the day they had first met in the post office , standing beside one another on the scrubbed hollow boards , waiting for the evening mail van to come . |
| 4 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 5 | My wife 's family are the sort of people they attack first . |
| 6 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |