Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [prep] the first [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Restoration his ex-church and ex-crown lands and those belonging to the Butler ( Ormonde ) family in Ireland were all forfeit , but he managed to retain other Irish interests , through the friendship and protection of the first Baron Kingston , who as Sir John King [ q.v. ] had been a Cromwellian until 1659 . |
| 2 | In 1882 he married Laura Julia , daughter of Baron Hermann de Stern and his wife Julia Goldsmid , and sister of the first Baron Michelham . |
| 3 | Alarmed by the scale of peasant unrest unleashed during 1905 , and appalled at the composition and radicalism of the First Duma , the landed nobility moved to assert their interests . |
| 4 | As early as 1899 he wrote on this theme in England 's Peril , and in 1906 in The Invasio n of 1910 he forecast World War I with the approbation and collaboration of the first Earl Roberts [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | The identity of Marjorie is not known but it may have been Ayrshire 's Marjorie Bruce , daughter of Robert Bruce and mother of the first Stewart king ( See Chapter 16 ) . |