Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill was prepaid , so that he was away from the hotel before the front desk was manned , and the car had started first turn . |
| 2 | Important work had to take first place . |
| 3 | They already had a lock on the number Zack had used first , but when he changed booths , even though the kiosks were side-by-side in Dunstable , they lost him . |
| 4 | The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first . |
| 5 | There was jubilation that a local team had come first . |
| 6 | There was one stratagem left to try first . |
| 7 | The pastorate had passed first to his brother ; on his death it had reverted to one of the famous preacher 's twin sons . |
| 8 | From this age group , the level began to increase first slowly ( infant mortality at the maternal age group 30–34 was lower than in the age group 20–24 ) and from age 35 more rapidly , although the mortality of infants born to women in the 35–39 years old group was not much higher than in the age group 20–24 which is often considered as the prime time for reproduction . |
| 9 | The theft rate began to drop first in the Interior region and then in the Intermediate area . |
| 10 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 11 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 12 | The book caused Robert Blatchford , editor of the socialist newspaper The Clarion , to write to Mr Carpenter in some concern : economic change had to come first , said Mr Blatchford , and it would therefore be better not to mention sex until after socialism had been achieved . |
| 13 | He got long , ill-spelt letters from Claire every week , telling him what Doyle had done , and how Mary the cook was going into hospital , and the Labrador had taken first prize at the Eadstown Field Day . |
| 14 | The Renault driver had engaged first and was tugging his tow-bar out of the radiator of the Jaguar . |
| 15 | Her father had loved her , but her mother had come first , as was only right , and , under her seeming indifference , her mother had loved and relied on her husband . |