Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One teacher started by asking her class what caught their attention first . |
| 2 | The black trousers caught her eye first , displayed catchingly in the window on a mannequin with the same colour hair as her own . |
| 3 | It was Jenny who found her voice first , and Sara 's heart was caught by the tremor in it . |
| 4 | She found his blood first , spattered in the grey slush underfoot , and then , a little way beyond , the assassin himself , reduced to a lumpen form in the gutter . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it was Webb and Bath who made their mark first , with a neat series of passes over on the right . |
| 6 | But this time when I go back I mean to stay and die there , because , let me tell you ’ — she wagged her finger first at the Colonel and then at Reginald — ‘ there 's a time coming when there 'll be no France and very little England , or any place else . ’ |
| 7 | Maggie had always wanted to drive and passed her test first time . |
| 8 | Like Diane Barker , of Bishop Auckland , a deaf teenager who passed her test first time in 1984 after having special mirrors fitted so she could lip read commands from the driving instructor without taking her eyes of the road . |
| 9 | And it was the home side that opened their account first , through Paul Kitson . |
| 10 | From 1538 , Mary , widow of Francis of Orleans , duke of Longueville , and then aged twenty-three , spent her life first as the wife of James V , when she fulfilled her function as queen by producing two sons , only to see both of them die , and then as queen dowager fighting to maintain her daughter 's interests . |
| 11 | A female was believed to come back after a night 's hunt and give her milk to whichever baby grabbed her teat first . |
| 12 | We saw her room first . |
| 13 | Malhandir reached his master first and Tyrion vaulted into the saddle then turned to face his foes . |
| 14 | Valkyrie was chosen from some 20,235 entrants in a name-a-plane content — there were thirteen entries suggesting this name , but the winner , Air Force T/Sgt Francis W Seiler posted his entry first . |
| 15 | As a poet , he made his mark first in 1712 with the publication of Nereides : Or , Sea-Eclogues , Callipædia and Dryades . |
| 16 | I did my hair first thing , so now I untie the ribbon and shake it free . |
| 17 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 18 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 19 | The Czechoslovak government on Jan. 1 launched its long-awaited first package of market economic reforms , featuring price liberalization , privatization of small businesses , and internal convertibility of the koruna . |
| 20 | The medieval Croatian kingdom which emerged in the early tenth century under Tomislav ( AD 910–30 ) had its base first of all at Nin , 15 km north of Zadar , and later at Biograd-na-Moru , 75 km to the south . |
| 21 | Isobel had her wedding-ring first . |
| 22 | The question is , who wrote his Gospel first ? |
| 23 | Avril had been advised to have chemotherapy , but she wanted her wedding first . |
| 24 | The lord valued his land first and foremost as the source of knights . |