Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had to gamble on selling before he can buy , that 's why he got rid of first Ray Houghton and then Dean Saunders . |
| 2 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 3 | Its management decided to start from first principles by developing critical success factors . |
| 4 | Although his manner appeared reserved on first meeting , he could be a genial , friendly , and charming companion . |
| 5 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 6 | On reaching Port Said , however , the captain declared that Annesley would have to be more respectably attired if he wished to continue in first class . |
| 7 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 8 | " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz . |
| 9 | Shelby did n't like Ferrari ; like plenty of others before and after , he had experienced at first hand Enzo Ferrari 's withering contempt for lesser mortals . |
| 10 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 11 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 12 | It was written in a frantic one month burst and sounded hurried on first hearing . |
| 13 | He also looked likely to join Sheffield Wednesday at one stage but in the end had to settle for First Division Newcastle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She seemed calm enough but the fit she had thrown on first wakening was fresh in his mind . |
| 16 | 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 . |