Sentence examples for there was first from inspiring English sources

In verse there was first of all William Blake.

In Lilla's telling there was, first of all, nothing inevitable about the Great Separation.

Some of those sailors fought at the 1494 siege of Naples, and the devastating mystery disease that broke out among brothel visitors there was first called the Neapolitan Curse.

In the defeated American South there was first a desire to leave behind what was called the Lost Cause -- the agrarian world of slavery and the plantation -- and emulate the industrial capitalism of the North.

With 11 minutes gone there was first glimpse of Neymar's supremely inventive range of movement, a flick and shimmy taking him past Pablo Zabaleta inside the box like a man very tactfully evading a drunken late night pedestrian.

The Campaign Against Motorway Service Area (CAMSA), said the fight dated back to 1994 when the idea of a new service station there was first mooted.

There is, first, the music itself.

"But surely there are first principles?

There is, first, knowledge of certain facts.

There is first and foremost Barack Obama.

There is first time for everything.