Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] first " in BNC.

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1 Your eyes … although your hair first
2 But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building .
3 The family of Vincenc Kramar have consistently refused to make any public statement concerning their claim on the collection since his son first filed for the 1991 round of restitution claims in September of that year .
4 Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er
5 ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies .
6 When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components :
7 Rogers was just 10 years old when her behaviour first caused concern .
8 Kelly was 12 months old when her mother first began to worry that all was not well .
9 When his firm first experimented with making a combine-harvester , the blades they used on the cutter were smooth-edged like the swap-hook , or scythe , or the blades on a reaper-binder .
10 ‘ Earlier , when his drinking first became a problem , I tried to help .
11 Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax .
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