Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | George , whom I looked for first , was in his office eating a fat ragged beef sandwich and drinking diet Coke . |
| 2 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 3 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 4 | A working compromise was reached only after Barbarossa agreed to hold the Pope 's bridle and stirrup at a formal meeting ; an act of ritual homage which he had at first refused . |
| 5 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 6 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been playing Jimi 's stuff live for about fifteen years , now , ’ says Hansen , ‘ but The Ventures was what I listened to first , then it was The Stones and The Beatles . |
| 8 | When she was beginning to cry out for him , while he still hovered over her , taunting her with the prospect of even now being denied what she had at first fought against , he demanded her verbal surrender too . |
| 9 | I did n't know what she meant at first . |
| 10 | of what you drank from first , then what you drowned in . |
| 11 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |