Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 2 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 3 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 4 | The royal couple found that seclusion at Broadlands , Earl Mountbatten 's home in Hampshire , where they spent the first three days of their honeymoon , followed by a leisurely Mediterranean cruise on board the royal yacht Britannia which they joined at Gibraltar . |
| 5 | Fifteen Associates , plus two from each of the Irish and Scottish Institutes , travelled to Frankfurt , where they spent the first week of the ninth German Banking Study Tour . |