Example sentences of "[vb past] first a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expected Urquhart but found first a message from her brother inviting her down for the weekend . |
| 2 | He played first a whistle , then a mouth organ , then a trumpet . |
| 3 | The victim he portrays is Freddie Mills , champion British boxer of the 1940s who became a celebrity in the '50s and opened first a restaurant and then a nightclub . |
| 4 | Suddenly , from inside the tunnel , they heard first a shot and then a scream . |
| 5 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 6 | With the aid of a small capital thus amassed , he became first a pedlar in Lincolnshire , then a traveller — but it seems to sit on the surface of his story that the motive for his wider travels was not so much the search for gain as the love of travel itself , and the urge to pilgrimage . |
| 7 | But as Rome became first an Italian and then a Mediterranean power , it became inevitable that the Roman people should have contact with Greeks and with Greek art . |
| 8 | This meant first a period in hospital , then periodic visits to the clinic . |
| 9 | He married first a sister of John Bowes , having a son John , and secondly , after 1630 , Dame Jacoba van Lore , widow of Sir Peter van Lore , a wealthy merchant and moneylender . |