Example sentences of "[noun sg] first [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellant Christou first came in with Wright on 15 January 1991 . |
| 2 | Foxing was a term first used in about the 1840s , probably because the brownish-yellow spots and blotches reminded some fox-hunting bibliophile of his quarry in the countryside . |
| 3 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 4 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 5 | When The Clash first met up with beat poet Allen Ginsberg in '81 , Joe asked , ‘ Well Ginsberg , when you gon na run for president ? ’ |
| 6 | What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel . |
| 7 | When the call first came in from Fraxilly , I did n't accept it . |
| 8 | The method of argument is based on the same underlying logic as the experiment , a logic first spelled out by John Stuart Mill in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The full power of trance possession first came through to me in Bali while watching the all-night shadow plays by the great dalangs , or puppet-masters , such as Madra . |
| 10 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |