Example sentences of "[noun pl] first [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US aeroplanes first flew out of Upper Heyford during the war , and in 1970 a permanent base was set up there . |
| 2 | In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s . |
| 3 | When the two partners first set up on their own — according to Byrne , with only $5000 capital and giving up a secure future — they did so under the guise of an employment agency , so that they would not appear to be in direct competition with their ex-employers . |
| 4 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 5 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |