Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head bent swiftly to kiss first one shoulder and then the other . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'd better check first . ’ |
| 3 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 4 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 5 | It did not look as if women would ever be part of the Edinburgh Typographical Society ; but in fact , the women compositors did finally gain first admission to the men 's union as a subordinate section and finally control ( within limits ) of their own affairs . |
| 6 | She definitely did n't come first with him . |
| 7 | So you did n't get first prize then ? |
| 8 | Well my son , Andrew , was involved with some of these discussions , so what I did n't learn first hand myself I learned second hand from him . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry I did n't phone first … ’ he began defensively . |
| 10 | But when she 'd arrived the boat had been deserted and , as darkness had gradually obscured first the surrounding countryside and then the outlines of neighbouring boats , none of them showing any lights , she had become just a little anxious . |
| 11 | He thought he had it pretty clear from Peter 's testimony that Place had indeed fired first and that the boy knew it . |