Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 2 | It comprised some of the very best of the Black-Earth belt , but after the Revolution it had been trampled over first by the Red Army advancing on Kiev from Kharkov , then by the German 20th Army Corps , and later by ruthless and bloodthirsty ‘ Green ’ armies . |
| 3 | An Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 appeared to have produced an acceptable compromise proposal : al-Megrahi and Fhimah would be handed over first to the Arab League , which would then through UN channels deliver them to either the UK or the US judicial authorities ; the League then sent a delegation to Tripoli to negotiate the terms of the handover . |
| 4 | New books in the series will be brought out first in hard-back priced around £40 . |
| 5 | If you are considering purchasing a piece of equipment remember many aids can be tried out first at Disabled Living Centres and at ‘ Dialability ’ in Oxford . |
| 6 | The Doctor is still convinced that the solution must be worked out first within the borders of this country and not by people outside it . |
| 7 | But survey coordinator Hilary Snowdon said test questionnaires were sent out first to gauge any objections . |
| 8 | When poking ends of copper pipe through walls , or under floors , make sure that the end is sealed off first with insulating tape . |
| 9 | Young Eric , who was modestly competent in English but certainly not fluent , was packed off first to a boarding school then to University College School , Hampstead . |
| 10 | Gregory 's father died when he was still a boy , and he was brought up first by his great-uncle , Nicetius , then a priest in Chalon-sur- Saône , but later bishop of Lyons , and afterwards by Avitus , archdeacon of Clermont , where his uncle Gallus was bishop . |