Example sentences of "[was/were] at [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances .
2 Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 .
3 At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were .
4 The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time .
5 I was at the first one when I was fifteen .
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