Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we know that Gundulph built here the first buildings which became known as the Bishops ' Palace , and it is most probable that when building his Manor House he rebuilt the church . |
| 2 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 3 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 4 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
| 5 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 6 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
| 7 | In the 1950s , Professor Paul carried out the first experiments using a form of magnetic bottle — the ‘ Paul trap ’ — to isolate ionised atoms . |