Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.

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1 Johnson was overlooked for the managerial job despite steering Cambridge to their first Coca-Cola Cup quarter-final .
2 The mid-week match in Tamworth was memorable mainly for providing Scotland with their first win in five matches .
3 The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) .
4 She slipped , without appearing to notice it , into addressing Derek by his first name and , after some initial awkwardness , he reciprocated .
5 On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night .
6 Kurt Weinburg 's evacuation began disastrously but , thanks to his headmaster ( who had already proved his sensitivity by introducing Kurt on his first day to the only other Jewish boy in the school ) , it turned out better than he expected :
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