Sentence examples for came off first from inspiring English sources
That's when the third-base umpire, John Shulock, overruled Runge, saying Fred McGriff's foot came off first base.
"They're doing the same thing we did, looking for what came off first," said Robert T. Francis, who was the public face of investigation of the T.W.A. Flight 800 crash off Long Island in 1996, when he was vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Such pieces of wreckage further back on Columbia's path could give important clues to the events that led to the final disaster, though Admiral Gehman cautioned, "Even if we found the piece of debris that came off first, we'd still have to find the cause and then the contributing cause" that led to the accident.
Cameras went up, notebooks came out, the plane stopped, the stairs came down, and the big-time press came off first.
I tend to put the "front" (where the clamps came off) first so I can use the sheet to hold on the pipe fittings.
Grabban then went on a duel with his nemesis Hamer but came off second best with the goalkeeper denying the forward's next three attempts.
We had a go, but came off second best".
It might sound as if Billy came off second best.
And he came off second best to the real fox?
Their lethal toxic venom ensured that anything that ate them came off second best.
