Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 2 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 3 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 4 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 5 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 6 | That goal was a little rough on St Johnstone , who had chances during the second half , though the best came in the first when Harry Curran threaded a pass through to Vinny Arkins . |
| 7 | The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission . |
| 8 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 9 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 10 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 11 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 13 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 14 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
| 15 | THE TV presenter Fiona Armstrong yesterday spoke for the first time about why she has quit the breakfast station GMTV — and dismissed talk about the notorious ‘ F ( for fanciability ) factor ’ . |
| 16 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 17 | Conventionalism also failed on the first perspective . |
| 18 | However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona . |
| 19 | Tony Holland , who says he nearly quit before the first episode , admits the programme was ‘ ropey ’ when it first went out and is only ‘ half decent ’ now . |
| 20 | The congress also agreed for the first time that in order to ensure a separation of the MPRP and state bodies , the Chairman of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural ( i.e. effective head of state ) should not be a member of the supreme governing body of the MPRP . |
| 21 | It nearly happened in the first Test . |
| 22 | Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad . |
| 23 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 24 | Another practice fairly common in the sixteenth century , that of the " circular " embassy which visited a series of different states , negotiating with each in turn , also persisted into the first half of that which followed . |
| 25 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 26 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 27 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 28 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 29 | Some in Europe who had maintained the Yellow Sword declared it was an extremely difficult fish , only giving birth to about 20 very week fry — which often died in the first few weeks . |
| 30 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |