Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 2 | Interestingly , the date of the building is roughly contemporary with the Combe Down inscription , coinciding with a considerable tightening of control over imperial estates under the emperor Severus , when the liberality which had been introduced first by Hadrian and later by Pertinax was largely cancelled . |
| 3 | We had been warned first to make our obeisances to the dead king before we even acknowledged his long-suffering queen . |
| 4 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 5 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Youngs only struck Mr Wray after he had been punched first . |