Example sentences of "[prep] come first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 2 | They always sort of came first , they were the sort of centre of the family and everything rotated round them . |
| 3 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 4 | In 1986 and again in 1989 a Heriot 's pupil gained the distinction of coming first in Scotland in the Higher Grade examination . |
| 5 | Congratulations to Barry White , area sales manager in the North East , for coming first in the Cayton Bay Surfing Challenge . |
| 6 | For a girl who places such emphasis on coming first , there was , perhaps , a poignant irony in the fact that she — and her mother and father — should be late in hearing news of the attempted coup in Russia last August . |
| 7 | There was jubilation from the Bessbrook camp when they regained the Ulster title they lost last year by coming first in Grade Two with a clear three points lead . |