Sentence examples for first been from inspiring English sources

They'd married first, been mothers first.

That threshold had, after all, first been set in 1925.

The Russian administration had at first been liberal.

I had first been to the Barnes in January.

He had first been charged 10 years earlierr.

I did not notice that the book had first been published in 1904.

Yet Lange had not at first been the staunchest proponent of Labour's policy.

To be "back,"of course, you must've first been somewhere, then gone somewhere else & then returned.

The settlement had first been reported by Crain's New York Business.

At Geneva, he had at first been welcomed and honoured as the champion of tolerance.

The powers and uses of reason had first been explored by the philosophers of ancient Greece.