Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than twenty children were killed bringing in that first wartime crop of 1914 . |
| 2 | Other Diamond kites — the Ace , Trlby , Zig-Zag , Rainbow , Hyperkites Ghostie , Blazer , Brookite Stunters and Dunford Stingray — have carried on that first generation with low-cost products that perform impressively for any novice and have served over the years to bring so many into the kite fraternity . |
| 3 | And very often at night , if I do n't lock up that first door they 're through there |
| 4 | It 's very important that I can keep as many first team players fit to maintain a regular team , ’ says Nigel . |
| 5 | It all happened by repeated dragooning — not by me : I could n't have cared less that first term , I was so miserable . |
| 6 | ‘ After Gavin slotted over those first three kicks we never thought we would lose , ’ said the hooker . |
| 7 | The adrenaline was certainly pumping , but I realised it was just a matter of getting over those first few minutes . |
| 8 | Her face as she stood outside the register office , with that big municipal clock behind her , ticking off those first glistening moments of nuptial bliss . |
| 9 | Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson . |
| 10 | I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . |
| 11 | I saw that notebook again many winters later , and suddenly realised why that first sighting of ‘ Fred ’ had been such a disappointment . |
| 12 | Now the departments of education and industry — against the wishes of the Treasury — want to take away that first bite . |
| 13 | And a postmen 's union spokesman said already some first class mail is not making trains to London and elsewhere because of shortages among sorters . |
| 14 | In this the miners are at one with the demonstrators who set up another first in Moscow yesterday — the first rival march to the parade in Red Square which officially salutes the revolution . |
| 15 | Because we all our production costs commissions everything comes out that first year 's payment . |