Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 2 | It was spoken in Lowland Scotland for many centuries and generated our first literature , indeed , Europe 's first literature outside Latin and Greek . |
| 3 | Turn and go past the swimming baths and take your first right and you 're going more or less down to erm where that boy married what you |
| 4 | This week , in the inaugural Fiji International Sevens , the Scots will be able to devote further studies to the Australians and get their first glimpse of Tonga , against whom they are also drawn in the Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 5 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances . |
| 7 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 8 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 9 | Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club . |
| 10 | Cash bonuses come the way of the super seasiders whom Byrne plays 15 first team matches and wins his first full cap . |
| 11 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals takes salt solution from its brine fields and turns it first into chlorine and then into a host of downstream products . |
| 12 | The man was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; the many were that section of the French people who , newly enfranchised in 1848 , gave him their votes and made him first their president and then their emperor . |
| 13 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |