Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 2 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 3 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 4 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 5 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 6 | Make a note of these in your garden diary , and watch carefully for the first sign of bud swelling , for they will need pruning first . |
| 7 | Jezrael let go and dodged weakly beneath the first one . |
| 8 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |
| 9 | From a wizened dried up body which was buried in the sand some 5000 years ago to the amazing unwrapped mummy of Ramses the Great , one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs , Mummies and Magic has recreated and brought together for the first time in one exhibition , some of the most important Royal Mummies and funerary treasures . |
| 10 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 11 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 12 | The girls were awakened and taken across in the first convoy , the boys in the next . |
| 13 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 14 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |