Example sentences of "[vb past] first the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to arrive was the photographer , who plugged in arc lights and photographed first the body from every angle and then every single object in the room in the minutest detail . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , though the dates may fairly safely be disregarded , Ismail Belig seems right in suggesting that Molla Fenari received first the muderrislik on his return from Egypt and then , later , the kadilik of Bursa . |
| 3 | We joined first the Brownies and then the Girl Guides and Ranger Guides . |
| 4 | And the game well Wembley can be the kindest … and yet cruelest of places … for once the cliches came true … it was the team that settled first the side that scored the opening goal that won but what a victory … what a battle … and what an opening goal … |
| 5 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 6 | With skill and persistence , Chamberlain brought first the French , and then the Czechs , to follow the moral line . " |
| 7 | Son died first the mother died five weeks later , we had wonderful fun getting that one sorted out . |
| 8 | Lothar 's biographer in the Gesta makes the point that following Celestine 's death he did not immediately join the cardinals assembled in the Septizonium , but attended first the exequies , or funeral rites , for the dead pope , which were taking place in the Lateran basilica . |
| 9 | He attended first the Freeland School , Glasgow , and then Alexander 's Endowed School in the same city . |
| 10 | Another faction , which included Mohammed Said and Abdelkader Hachani , demanded first the release of FIS leaders Madani and Belhadj ( arrested in June — see p. 38312 ) . |
| 11 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |