Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In accounts that were given of first meetings we find that the situation is often important as it is usually mentioned . |
| 2 | All five were trapped at first , but the prosecution says the three men ran away , ignoring a girl 's screams , and later lied to the police … |
| 3 | Third party claims were considered at first instance and in the Court of Appeal . |
| 4 | The Lions believe they were robbed by first and last-minute decisions from Australian referee Brian Kinsey which gifted New Zealand eight points in a cliffhanging match . |
| 5 | Particular provisions were made for first offenders and for the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts . |
| 6 | Similar surveys were produced for first schools ( 5–9 ) and middle schools ( 9–13 ) . |
| 7 | Extinguishers were used at first but to no avail . |
| 8 | Officers were told at first that there were two different tapes in existence . |
| 9 | His parents were told at first that he was hit in the chest during a gun battle . |
| 10 | Most of the shots in this collection , however , were taken at first light including those of which Nigel is most proud : ‘ If I have to choose a favourite it would be the photograph of Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 11 | Most of the shots in this collection , however , were taken at first light including those of which Nigel is most proud : ‘ If I have to choose a favourite it would be the photograph of Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 12 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 13 | 1250 students were admitted to first year undergraduate studies last year and over 500 to postgraduate studies , giving a total population of 44000 full-time students . |
| 14 | Valtr Komarek and Jan Carnogursky were demoted from First Deputy Premier to Deputy Premier ( because there was no point in differentiating between the two levels of post , according to Marian Calfa , the Federal Premier ) . |
| 15 | In the 1930s , the Supreme Court began to widen its interpretation of free speech to include writings and films of little or no artistic merit , provided they did not include ‘ licentious ’ speech , the forms of which were listed in 1942 as libel , slander , insulting or ‘ fighting ’ words , and obscenity , all of which were excluded from First Amendment protection . |
| 16 | These were obtained by first establishing approximate blackout and whiteout points by observing a succession of images and then fixing eight equally spaced points in the interval between them . |
| 17 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 18 | The only thing , the only thing that all of us said categorically is they were fired upon first , but the trouble is they 've had fucking twenty years to , to think up their side and so there 's that so |
| 19 | These pledges were rejected by First Vice-President Maximo San Román Cáceres , who on his return from the USA was sworn in symbolically on April 21 as " Constitutional President " in front of 200 members of the deposed congress . |