Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only drawback to the course was the way my calves refused to move first thing in the morning ; the pluses ? — meeting and making new friends and returning home refreshed and energised in mind and body . |
| 2 | The first time I played this competition my team happened to come first . |
| 3 | Her father had loved her , but her mother had come first , as was only right , and , under her seeming indifference , her mother had loved and relied on her husband . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 5 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |