Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first . |
| 2 | A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first . |
| 3 | A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first . |
| 4 | A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first . |
| 5 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 6 | In Derry the civil rights movement achieved its greatest moral authority and it was in the city that its authority first began to crumble . |
| 7 | Your eyes … although your hair first |
| 8 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 9 | A member of the WRVS for over 30 years , previously working on a hospital tea bar in Woolwich , she became involved with the court operation when she and her husband first moved to Hampshire . |
| 10 | A DELIGHTED woman has given birth to healthy sextuplets , seven years after she and her husband first tried to have a baby . |
| 11 | As we slowly descended , the mist cleared a little , and we found ourselves amid sheep pastures … ’ wrote the late Louis Littman , a successful businessman , when he and his wife first saw Ashley Chase with a view to buying it . |
| 12 | Ex-music journalist Nick Kelly and his band first came into the public eye in 1989 with the release of the excellent single ‘ Arclight ’ , which was voted Single of the Year in the 1989 Hot Press readers ' poll . |
| 13 | He [ Lewes ] and his party first went to an R.A.F. headquarters located somewhere near Fuka . |
| 14 | But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building . |
| 15 | The family of Vincenc Kramar have consistently refused to make any public statement concerning their claim on the collection since his son first filed for the 1991 round of restitution claims in September of that year . |
| 16 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 18 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 19 | Rogers was just 10 years old when her behaviour first caused concern . |
| 20 | Kelly was 12 months old when her mother first began to worry that all was not well . |
| 21 | When his firm first experimented with making a combine-harvester , the blades they used on the cutter were smooth-edged like the swap-hook , or scythe , or the blades on a reaper-binder . |
| 22 | ‘ Earlier , when his drinking first became a problem , I tried to help . |
| 23 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |