Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] first [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reckon there was a load of fallen branches lying under the air shaft before we pushed the guy down it ; according to the young cop who first went down it looked like he 'd crawled out from the middle of the pile . |
| 2 | Despite these setbacks , which essentially put Intel back on the delivery schedule it first mapped out for Pentium , Unisys is quick to say how delighted it is it chose Intel 's part over any of the RISC technologies . |
| 3 | Despite these setbacks , which essentially put Intel back on the delivery schedule it first mapped out for Pentium , Unisys is quick to say how delighted it is it chose Intel 's CISC over any of the RISC technologies . |
| 4 | Each morning he first switched on the power for his terminal . |
| 5 | I 'm not taking the pictures for the reason I first picked up a camera . |
| 6 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 7 | If the new sector colleges were able to apply for the use of those premises it could jeopardise the adult ethos and character of the provision and would subsequently deny many adults their first step back into education . |
| 8 | You might guess it was my dad who first pointed out this odd ( and classically Chaotic ) phenomenon and brought it to the attention of us kids . |
| 9 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 10 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |