Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] [vb past] first " in BNC.

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1 There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first .
2 Paige felt her heart thudding wildly in her chest , but it was her aunt who spoke first .
3 I leave it to you to decide which bullet I played first .
4 And he liked Gamal , whose acquaintance he had first made when working on one of his earliest cases as Mamur Zapt .
5 As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell .
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