Example sentences of "[art] first [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't see his face change , eyes lighting with anger , rejection ; the first she knew was when he knocked his plate crashing across the room and yelled , ‘ To hell with you , then ! ’ |
| 2 | The first I knew was a call from your old chum Roy Bliss not ten minutes ago . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 4 | ‘ The first I heard was when Sharon came on the phone crying ‘ Our girls are dead , our girls are dead ’ . |
| 5 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 6 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |
| 7 | The first it powered was Pitts Mill , now restored , at Staunton . |