Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adj] first " in BNC.

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1 Old Fakrid 's hardly been gone two time units and already our clever First Pilot has begun to sound exactly like him .
2 While Wyllie himself played the leading role in his side 's narrow victory , he was given excellent support by the equally experienced second-row pair , Ian Burnside and Ben Gordon , who won the touchline battle , and Finlay Calder , playing possibly his last first XV game for the club .
3 He felt more duty to his mother too , because she had brought up his own first son after his wife 's death in childbirth .
4 Now my twenty first birthday I 'd never had a copper for weeks , w e had n't got anything , anything at all , and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits .
5 To do so means having kept back something special in reserve and therein lies the whole problem with ‘ Great Expectations ’ — Tasmin threw out her finest first .
6 They disowned their food and their language and in some cases even their Indian first names .
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