Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] first [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 2 | The job began to take over my life , and my first marriage ended in divorce . |
| 3 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 4 | They lacked adventure and their first corner came in the 75th minute . |
| 5 | He and his first wife lived on Cressy until 1951 . |
| 6 | Vuk himself took up the task , and his first effort appeared in October 1814 . |
| 7 | Wedgewood on German drinking habits : ‘ The Landgrave of Hesse founded a Temperance society but its first president died of drink ; Lewis of Württemberg , surnamed the pious , drank two challengers into stupor and , being himself still sober , had them sent home in a cart with a pig . |
| 8 | 150 years after its first branch opened in Rochdale , the new-look Co-Op was launched today in Cheltenham . |
| 9 | The Gazette did n't appear to mind as long as my first loyalty remained to them . |
| 10 | When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey . |
| 11 | When your first telegram arrived at about two a.m. a few nights ago requesting destination for the modified aircraft , I thought that Stirling had spoken to B.G.S. here and fixed his requirements with you . |