Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |
2 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
3 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
4 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
5 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
6 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
7 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |