Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 2 | Above all , as the preface points out , it is a study that gives first and last voice to the users of the mental health services themselves . |
| 3 | It was not the kindness that had first struck Dinah Asshe , but a young man 's interest in herself ; she had not been permitted to meet many young men . |
| 4 | It is time to turn from the past to the future and consider first what centrally regulated changes in the curriculum for schools would help to raise the overall standard of education of children , nation-wide . |
| 5 | Near Portree , ‘ the harbour of the king ’ — James V , rather of Mary , Queen of Scots , once sailed in — I lay on heathland and watched first one , then another , high against the clear blue sky . |
| 6 | After Ken went , they drove off to Hornsey in the ambulance and stopped first for a Chinese meal — much against Lou 's wishes ; she does n't like Chinese — followed by a session at the pub . |
| 7 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 8 | At last , Jimmy was telling the story that had first prompted Cardiff to seek him out and bring him here . |
| 9 | Y you make this political challenge and this sort of cultural attitude sort of challenges and then you will come on , and Mao 's very precise about this , it 's the political change that comes first |
| 10 | If C f changes to become like C i in some way , the assimilation is called regressive ( the phoneme that comes first is affected by the one that comes after it ) ; if C i changes to become like C f in some way , the assimilation is called progressive . |
| 11 | Paul is an ex-professional clarinetist , still loves music , is keen on sport and plays first division league tennis for Surrey . |
| 12 | Ultimately , however , the beavers ' lake , like any other , will fill with sediment and turn first into a swamp and then into a level green grassland . |
| 13 | Stevie had the honour and drove first . |
| 14 | While Henry II talked of peace and allowed first Geoffrey and then Henry to pull the wool over his eyes , Richard 's duchy was slipping away from him . |
| 15 | When I got home , I would buy a new computer and explore first DesignaKnit and then other software packages . |
| 16 | He was crouching underneath the pageant , looking up at the sky through the central trapdoor , waiting to be created out of a rib in Adam 's chest and become First Woman . |
| 17 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 18 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 19 | It was struggling vainly to free itself , bleating weakly , but suddenly letting out the long , piping , despairing cry that had first arrested Deborah 's attention . |
| 20 | The team that finishes first wins the game . |
| 21 | And the game well Wembley can be the kindest … and yet cruelest of places … for once the cliches came true … it was the team that settled first the side that scored the opening goal that won but what a victory … what a battle … and what an opening goal … |
| 22 | Betrayal , the theme that had first entered Harry 's head in Burford , recurred to his mind now as the link between all the widely spaced events that had borne down on Heather Mallender . |
| 23 | As soon as you decide to attack your opponent , you must seize the initiative and strike first . |
| 24 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 25 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 26 | The two books of Préludes are divided between two discs , being coupled respectively with La boîte à joujoux and a miscellany including the Six e/1pigraphs antiques in the composer 's own transcription from the version for piano duet that appeared first . |
| 27 | Tug slumped into a chair and looked first to one side and then to the other . |
| 28 | V. P. Dzhelepov , who had earlier discovered the temperature dependence of muon catalysed fusion and stimulated first Gershtein and Vesman and now Ponomarev , organised an experimental investigation at Dubna ( a nuclear laboratory near Moscow ) . |
| 29 | When Smith finally resumed his studies at Oxford he managed to compress his delayed undergraduate career into just 18 months , during which short time he won the university 's most prestigious classics prize and gained first class honours in both classics and mathematics . |
| 30 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |