Example sentences of "[vb past] first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 2 | Back in 1972 , he and Camilla Shand found first real love . |
| 3 | Lentricchia 's argument was quickly endorsed by Terry Eagleton who claimed first that poststructuralism represented a ‘ hedonist withdrawal from history ’ ( aestheticism ) and , a year later , that it amounted to a more menacing holocaust-like ‘ liquidation of history ’ . |
| 4 | as if intent on persuading her lips to curve , he bent and kissed first one corner of her mouth and then the other . |
| 5 | Finally , Malcolm Fraser , ex-editor of the Standard and of the Daily Express became first honorary press adviser and subsequently was employed to run the press bureau at the colossal salary of £1,200 . |
| 6 | My feelings have changed over the years as the system acquired first more memory and then bigger and faster processors . |
| 7 | Accelerated promotions had first given rise to major complaints in the reorganization after the Police Strike , when many younger and inexperienced officers were made sergeants . |