Example sentences of "[Wh adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 2 | Suggest several reasons why first this town and then the whole conurbation have grown in size ? |
| 3 | But just as the people in Exodus 16 , when first given the manna , found it hard to come to terms with God 's meticulous generosity , so now they are blinded by the clarity of God 's judgement . |
| 4 | ROBERT LEE has been promised a good reception today when First Division leaders Newcastle visit promotion rivals Charlton . |
| 5 | A well-preserved and slightly more elaborate example is a large limestone statuette in the Louvre ( fig. 12 ) , known as the Lady of Auxerre since when first noticed she was in the museum there . |
| 6 | To look backward to the time when first the morning stars sang together ! ’ |
| 7 | 1846 , after all , was the year when first his father and then his sister Caroline had died . |
| 8 | In all developing countries for which data are available , the number of children born to a woman during her childbearing years was , on average , 70 children if she married at age 17 or earlier , 6.1 if the marriage occurred at age 20–21 , and only 4.2 if she was older than 24 years when first married . |
| 9 | You mean this ingrate has n't been yearning , dreaming , fantasising , slavering ever since that magical , lyrical , blossom-scented night when first they met ? |
| 10 | The situation was to deteriorate further in the space of an hour when first Bernhard Langer and then Seve Ballesteros lost out to Chip Beck and Paul Azinger respectively . |
| 11 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 12 | She went to England in her teens ( 1917 ) to work under the dark genius of Sickert , and from him went on to France , where first , and briefly , she learnt from Andere Lhote , and then commenced a lifetime study with and under Albert Gleizes . |
| 13 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |