Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been playing Jimi 's stuff live for about fifteen years , now , ’ says Hansen , ‘ but The Ventures was what I listened to first , then it was The Stones and The Beatles . |
| 2 | Even though the chances of owning a boarding house were less then the people we listened to first believed , they had a distinctive orientation to work which no other group expressed . |
| 3 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |
| 4 | They had to first of all get a base from which to achieve , unfortunately of course gaining the power and the growth of the power no doubt the ideals were corrupted and it became what you are su suggesting it did , it no longer represented the people . |
| 5 | Though before they could reach the restaurant they had to first go down some concrete steps , and then up several flights more . |
| 6 | There was a silence for the first time it occurred to first form that the spider might of been put there on purpose , they looked at one another . |
| 7 | It had to first of all survive which is why it went on the long march was n't it ? |