Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat on a couch of deerskin , under the awning of his tent , a long , sinewy man in the prime of his powers , forty-eight years old , black of eye and black of hair , but for the first frostings of grey at temple and lip . |
| 2 | But after the first explorations and when they had absorbed the impact of the delight of the situation , the girl began to be restless . |
| 3 | But in the first years of the twentieth century the scale of such efforts sharply increased . |
| 4 | This left open the possibility of further Kindertransporte from countries threatened by Germany , but in the first months of the war no one was willing to engage in such defeatist speculation . |
| 5 | He was expected , quite unrealistically , to foster British trade throughout Europe ; but by the first years of the twentieth century the attaché in Paris had been supplemented by others in Berlin , Vienna , Constantinople , Madrid , Pekin and Yokohama . |