Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 2 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 3 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 4 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |
| 5 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 6 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |