Example sentences of "first [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first parish priest was Father Kevin Daley , who at first lived at the Cathedral House until a house was bought on Sundorne Avenue . |
| 2 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 3 | Bewick Swans first overwintered at the Wildfowl and Wetlands trust 45 years ago , and nowadays around three hundred return every year . |
| 4 | National park officer , Alan Jones , said the memorial fund will be used to maintain Cader Idris , the mountain which Dr Hughes first climbed at the age of four . |
| 5 | Since Evans first dug at the site in 1900 archaeological work has largely concentrated on revealing the remains of the palace of King Minos and other buildings of the extraordinary Minoan civilisation . |
| 6 | Ace repressed a shudder , while Howard looked on unaffected , having seen the stones when they first arrived at the university . |
| 7 | When she first arrived at the ICO the reaction was identical to that on her arrival in Africa : " Wow . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't been in here since the day I first arrived at the house . |
| 9 | When I first arrived at the flat and knocked on the door there was no answer . |
| 10 | He had said that he did not want a solicitor when he first arrived at the police station , at 2 p.m . |
| 11 | Erin kicked Khaur over to where he 'd been told to sit when the pilot first landed at the burrow to ferry them back to headquarters . |
| 12 | Socata 's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left , concluding it could never match such performance . |
| 13 | I I thought you might in fact but I mean when it was first taken we first looked at the tape , people in there were n't sure so Oh that 's good news oh that helps a lot because they 've tried The original Moneytalk was developed on VAX V M S |
| 14 | By May 12 the Bombay stock exchange index had fallen by 1,047 points or almost 24 per cent of the market 's capitalization since the scandal first emerged at the end of April . |
| 15 | Oswald first appeared at the Midland Railway Centre in August and was an immense success . |
| 16 | Stamped iron depositum plates , tin-dipped and designed in the form of a concave oval cartouche encircled by a garland of flowers , first appeared at the end of the seventeenth century ; so did grip-plates , which were similarly oval with a repoussé design of winged cherubs ' heads . |
| 17 | He first competed at the speedway in 1958 , qualified to compete a record 35 consecutive times and won the race on four occasions . |
| 18 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
| 19 | He first struck at the end of 1991 on the Milton Keynes Estate , then again a few months later . |
| 20 | Coleridge and Sara , in further disregard of the proprieties , first stayed at the cottage on about 20 August 1795 , over a month before their marriage . |