Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 2 | It is pleasant to think of the two new Cuddesdon students , pushing their bicycles up the hill together from Wheatley station that July day of 1927 , and so meeting for the first time . |
| 3 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
| 4 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 5 | Hodge : At 31 and not playing in the first team . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the patient , who has not been named , was making a rapid recovery and yesterday walked for the first time since the operation . |
| 7 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 8 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
| 9 | In the same counties , with the addition of Cornwall and Rutland , the median for eighty-five esquires was about £60 compared with £80 from 124 feodary surveys ; several men were worth upwards of £200 and clearly correspond with the first group of gentlemen in the table . |
| 10 | In general , we find paths from J to 1 and I to 1 and then look for the first node k at which the paths meet ( k = 9 in the example ) . |
| 11 | Mrs Singh asked ‘ Do you have the same holiday ? ’ and then spoke for the first time about Balbinder . |
| 12 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |