Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee is even more Machiavellian : ‘ It is a safe bet that there are those in the Pakistan dressing-room who believe Javed Miandad was wrong to bat first , ’ he declares boldly on Friday morning . |
| 2 | The strongest link between the UPV and illegal acts of violence came with a series of bombings in 1969 which , ironically , the Protestant Telegraph was quick to blame first on the IRA and then on the Eire government . |
| 3 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 4 | Morley Street was beaten 16 lengths and trainer Toby Balding said : ‘ The jockeys on the fancied horses were so busy watching each other that Adrian was able to get first run and nick it . ’ |
| 5 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
| 6 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 7 | But some incidents in his later career suggest that he was inclined to act first and let his legal advisers sort out the formalities later . |
| 8 | At the beginning of this century he joined the rather weird religious sect known as the Khlist , which cleaved to the belief that in order to receive absolution it was necessary to sin first . |