Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 2 | The effects of the economic burden which children imposed were felt first in the middle classes , for a variety of reasons , and led to significant family limitation in the late nineteenth century , as Banks 's ( 1954 ) classic study shows . |
| 3 | We had been warned first to make our obeisances to the dead king before we even acknowledged his long-suffering queen . |
| 4 | Turning off from the north-south highway some twelve miles north of the Makaa , the track leading to the cabin had been made first by loggers and then improved by a quarrying company some forty years ago . |
| 5 | This particular feature in the landscapes at Horta de Ebro , the solid , almost tangible , treatment of the sky , had been developed first in Cubist painting by Braque as a result of his new ideas about pictorial space . |
| 6 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 7 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 8 | A token economy had been tried first . |
| 9 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Youngs only struck Mr Wray after he had been punched first . |
| 10 | The sale ( subject to British export control regulations ) was made through Christie 's after the completion of the loan period and after the National Gallery had been offered first refusal . |
| 11 | Interestingly , the date of the building is roughly contemporary with the Combe Down inscription , coinciding with a considerable tightening of control over imperial estates under the emperor Severus , when the liberality which had been introduced first by Hadrian and later by Pertinax was largely cancelled . |