Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 2 | Finally , it was also found that the average self-reported first age of use of heroin by 236 clients of the Detoxification Unit was 17 years , with the age range 16–18 years accounting for nearly half of all reported first ages of heroin use . |
| 3 | It 's simply a question of first come first served , so if you 're coming by yourself I should stake your claim now . |
| 4 | ‘ The need for elderly people is desperate as well as for those wanting first time homes . ’ |
| 5 | It could appeal to old Gaitskellites like the ‘ gang of four ’ , Owen , Williams , and Rodgers , joined by Roy Jenkins whose Dimbleby Lecture in 1979 had first outlined the prospect of a new centrist movement . |
| 6 | He went to India in 1870 to work first for the raja of Kathiawar , and then for the public works department of the government of India , in which he became executive engineer , military works . |
| 7 | Clarke entered the Royal Military Academy , and in 1847 came first in his class and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers . |