Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] first [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was said that this was the place where the tide came in first and went out last , but this recession has barely affected us so far ’ , announces Richard Needham , minister of state for Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 3 | He took off first and circled the field , testing the controls . |
| 4 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 5 | He 'd come here first and found he could n't get in . |
| 6 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |