Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise , supervisor in the customer service department at International Paints in Canada , and Bob backflipped their way to first prize in a rock , n , roll dance competition in Montreal . |
| 2 | Nazarbayev resigned his post as first secretary and thus membership of the CPSU politburo on Aug. 22 . |
| 3 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 4 | Bernard refused her offer at first ; he did not think her English was fluent enough . |
| 5 | Evans got his blow in first as he stood at the door , ushered them into a large office overlooking the Kaiserstrasse . |