Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 2 | The first letter is very probably authentic , the second probably forged and intended to reinforce the first letter . |
| 3 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 4 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 5 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |