Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Down , Snappy ! ’ said Eleanor in the same dead tone she had used when Melissa first arrived . |
| 2 | There was apparently no Soviet objection in January 1968 when , following economic and other difficulties , Antonín Novotný was replaced as party first secretary by Alexander Dubček , a Slovak who had received part of his education in the USSR . |
| 3 | Suddenly , as the last few pupils left , there was an almighty scream and Mould came bounding into the room on two huge settee springs , just like the ones he had worn when Endill first met him . |
| 4 | It is not known when Christianity first established itself in Ireland — or , for that matter , anywhere else in the British Isles . |
| 5 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 6 | Almost 20 years have elapsed since Rebel first noted ‘ virus-like ’ particles in pagetic osteoclasts , but the identity of these structures remains unclear and they are not specific to Paget 's disease . |
| 7 | A number of them old , dedicated members of the Party who had joined when Mussolini first came to power — fraternized much too much with the Germans . |
| 8 | Intellectual : There is some evidence for " state-dependent learning " which results in the brain being best able to recall factual information and practical skills when it is in the same state as when that information was first learnt or skill first practised . |