Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was breathing and I could hear sort of I was thinking first of all it was coming from , you know somewhere outside like somebody |
| 2 | John Tame , chief accountant for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund , which was awarded first prize in Category 1 ( best report and accounts from a charity with income over £1m ) , explains : ‘ We 've entered for many years . |
| 3 | The serviles , as the conservative opposition was known , had few prospects in the Constituent Cortes : on 23 May 1813 the Cortes summoned its successor , the Ordinary Cortes , which was to meet first in Cadiz and then Madrid . |
| 4 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 5 | When an item is to be added to a full partition , the item at the Bottom , ie. the item which was added first , is deleted and the rest of the items shuffled down so that room can be created for the new item at the top . |
| 6 | From 1905 to 1909 she was employed first by Sidney and Beatrice Webb [ qq.v. ] and then by the royal commission on the poor laws as a research assistant on enquiries into public health , poor-law medical relief , and the treatment of destitute children . |
| 7 | Do you know why Lizzie is bigger than me ? 'Cos she was born first . |
| 8 | ( She was played first by Mozart 's sister-in-law , Josepha . ) |
| 9 | She was educated first at home by governesses and subsequently at Miss Wilson 's Academy in Tenby and Miss Philpott 's Educational Establishment in London . |
| 10 | At the police station , she said , she was told first that she would be charged with assault and then that she would be charged with disorderly behaviour . |
| 11 | SDLP lost a seat in this constituency , O'Hanlon , who was elected first in 1973 , became runner-up in 1975 . |
| 12 | Even when the famous Evangeline , who was elected first woman General of the Salvation Army in 1934 , visited Australia when Eva was six or seven Eva failed to appreciate why everyone was making such a fuss . |
| 13 | Eighteen patients admitted to hospital after team assessment were reviewed by the research psychiatrist and included in this study , but one subject who was seen first by the research psychiatrist and admitted after that interview as a matter of urgency was excluded , leaving a study sample of 100 cases . |
| 14 | The man who was known first as Ko ( ‘ Elder Brother ’ ) Nu , then Thakin Nu , and finally U Nu was born in 1907 at Wakema , a small market town ( 9000 people ) in the lush Delta of Lower Burma . |
| 15 | Stockport itself was bombed first on the night of 2nd/3rd October , with four people killed in Portwood ; pieces of shrapnel were recovered from the flat roof over the cloisters after the particularly busy night of 20th/21st October . |
| 16 | it was built first to show pictures , then turned into a dance hall . |
| 17 | If an item was dry and free from grease but had signs of corrosion , it was put first to the rotary wire brush to remove as much of the corrosion as possible . |
| 18 | He also wanted the schema on the Church debated as soon as possible : it was put first on the new session 's agenda . |
| 19 | Military experts suggested yesterday that the US was hoping its troops would be attacked by the pro-Noriega forces , allowing Washington to claim that it was attacked first and forced to intervene . |
| 20 | One of 70 H–25A helicopters ordered by the US Air Force , it was reallocated first to the US Army and then to the US Navy . |
| 21 | It was postponed first by the weak yen in 1982–85 which boosted exports and protected domestic industries from imports , and then by low interest rates and the soaring stockmarket in 1985–89 which cut financial burdens , allowed weak firms to make speculative profits to cover ordinary losses and made capital seem temporarily cheap . |
| 22 | The rotating presidency of the Council was held by Ireland for the first half of 1990 , by Italy for the second half of 1990 , and in 1991 it was held first by Luxembourg and then by the Netherlands . |
| 23 | On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap . |
| 24 | At this point blows were exchanged , Mullan claiming that he was hit first . |
| 25 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 26 | He was posted first to the Artillery , but then transferred to the Royal Engineers because he had a driving licence . |
| 27 | He was followed first by Hawkbit and then by Fiver . |
| 28 | He managed to escape from the car and struggle to nearby houses where he was given first aid . |
| 29 | He was flying first class to LAX , where he would be met by a uniformed chauffeur who would convey him by limousine or courtesy car to the Pinnacle Trumont on the Avenue of the Stars . |
| 30 | He was sent first to the Benedictines at Vernon Hall , Lancashire , then in 1802 to Stonyhurst , and finally in 1806 to St Edmund 's College , Ware . |