Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand came up and she caught him a stinging blow across the cheek , watching without a flicker as the mark turned first white , then red . |
| 2 | My feelings have changed over the years as the system acquired first more memory and then bigger and faster processors . |
| 3 | I suppose that I really put two and two together when reading a ( non aquatic ) book on the rain forest , which mentioned that the Rio Negro in Brazil was dark , due to a weak tea effect as the water percolated first through the vegetation and then through the sandy subsoil ( as opposed to clay subsoils elsewhere in the Amazon basin ) . |
| 4 | But as the subject developed first the term ‘ multinational marketing ’ was coined and then ‘ global marketing ’ was added to the picture . |
| 5 | The three men stared out across the French countryside as the light turned first murky , then grey and finally black . |