Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been no point in British history at which the prevailing method of government has been completely swept away , allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form of government . |
| 2 | When he went through the back door he discovered the printers had gone home and thought at first no one was there . |
| 3 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |
| 4 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |
| 5 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |