Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 2 | It was the child that had to have first consideration , and what had I got to offer it that justified my bringing it into the world ? |
| 3 | In today 's semifinal Lancashire skipper Neil Fairbrother won the toss and decided to bat first at Grace Road . |
| 4 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 5 | PSCs were initially absent from all the simulations but began to form first with doubled CO 2 just before day 20 ( 4 January ) and about 10 days later with current CO 2 For three of the simulations the area of PSCs reached a maximum at about day 50 ( 3 February ) before reducing rapidly to zero by early March , corresponding to the rapid increase in temperatures in Fig. 1 . |
| 6 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |