Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 2 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 3 | Martin Ling got the first after 29 minutes . |
| 4 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
| 5 | Further arrests were reported in the ensuing days , and on Dec. 30 the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency reported the first of a series of " intensive " police campaigns against " hotbeds of terrorism and extremism " in other areas of Cairo . |
| 6 | Mc Mahon scores a first at Dundalk |
| 7 | The space shuttle launched the first of these last week ( see below ) . |
| 8 | As the dawn patrol began the first of their two qualifying rounds from which 64 players will move into the match play stage the only sound to be heard was the twittering of larks overhead . |