Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time when I go back I mean to stay and die there , because , let me tell you ’ — she wagged her finger first at the Colonel and then at Reginald — ‘ there 's a time coming when there 'll be no France and very little England , or any place else . ’ |
| 2 | From 1538 , Mary , widow of Francis of Orleans , duke of Longueville , and then aged twenty-three , spent her life first as the wife of James V , when she fulfilled her function as queen by producing two sons , only to see both of them die , and then as queen dowager fighting to maintain her daughter 's interests . |
| 3 | As a poet , he made his mark first in 1712 with the publication of Nereides : Or , Sea-Eclogues , Callipædia and Dryades . |
| 4 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 5 | The medieval Croatian kingdom which emerged in the early tenth century under Tomislav ( AD 910–30 ) had its base first of all at Nin , 15 km north of Zadar , and later at Biograd-na-Moru , 75 km to the south . |