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

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1	It was the same sort of low church dissenting background which had produced many first generation medics like Kay and Wakley .
2	She tried hard to think back and remember exactly what she 'd said that first night in Jarman House .
3	When you went to pack that first night , I hung around in the hall trying to figure out my best move .
4	The robe she had worn that first morning , after they had wed .
5	The flat was indeed in some disarray : immaculately clean , evidently she had done that first , but with most of its furnishings disposed in boxes on the floor .
6	She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in , and slipped inside .
7	As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit .
8	So in , in both projects I think we had to do that first step .
9	Nevertheless his eyes rested on her , as they had done that first day .
10	He 'd timed that first drive with such care .
11	Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart .
12	He seemed to play that first nine better than the back nine every day .
13	She smiled , suddenly the woman he had met that first time , laughing and self-confident , all depths , all subtleties gone from her .
14	He had sent one first as a test , for sometimes it does n't do the doors a lot of good , and you find you 've wood of a variety of types and colour — indicating the door was never meant to be seen in the raw .
15	Years later , after my mother 's death , I found out what had caused that first attack and precipitated the fatal one .

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