Example sentences of "[noun prp] first [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 2 | Du n no how Maggie first sat down with him . |
| 3 | The pools is how Littlewoods first began back in 1923 when John Moores , a working class lad from Manchester , made his first million with a winning blend of football and gambling . |
| 4 | As a Russian-trained former officer in the Syrian Army , he had seemed to Donleavy a potentially useful source of background military and political intelligence from the moment Coleman first reported in about him . |
| 5 | Andrew first lost out to Dawe in 1989 , when he was dropped after the semi-final victory over Warwickshire . |
| 6 | These physicists have systematically probed one particular puzzle of quantum mechanics , a question that Albert Einstein and colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen first raised back in 1935 . |
| 7 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |