Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 2 | Rawlinson wished to attack at first light , or even earlier ; the French insisted on waiting until daylight so that they might gauge the effect of their all-night artillery fire . |
| 3 | Berowne had spoken at first spasmodically , then easily , and finally intimately . |
| 4 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 5 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 6 | Maslyukov had served as First Deputy Premier and chair of Gosplan , and briefly as acting Prime Minister after Nikolai Ryzhkov was incapacitated by a heart attack in late December . |
| 7 | Both Peking and East Berlin have witnessed at first hand just how dangerous the forces unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev can be . |