Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division .
2 The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon .
3 Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone .
4 Certainly he played extremely well in that position after Peter Wall was injured for most of 1972–73 and in the first half of 1973–74 , and it was from that position that he captained the Palace side .
5 I was totally conscious and for the first time since my labour started I felt relaxed .
6 But the question had been unwelcome and for the first time some of his cockiness seemed to have drained from him .
7 The equaliser brought more boost to Town , than United and for the first time in the game , the Oxford goal was under pressure .
8 He never came to the hotel drunk and for the first time for years worked almost to a routine .
9 Andrew Beattie was allowed a visit by his wife for a few minutes around half-past one and for the first time he learned that no strike organisers had been arrested other than in the Rathcoole district .
10 His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper .
11 His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup .
12 The hitherto buoyant Taiwan stock exchange suffered an unprecedented decline during 1989 and in the first half of 1990 .
13 After being defeated by Botvinnik on a number of occasions — notably at the great Avro Tournament of 1938 and at the first post war tournament held to find a successor to the late Alekhine — he finally got his revenge with a triumphal victory over the Soviet champion in the USSR .
14 This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented .
15 But he took a more positive stance in the third and at the first hint of resistance Newton 's temper began to rise .
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