Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near Portree , ‘ the harbour of the king ’ — James V , rather of Mary , Queen of Scots , once sailed in — I lay on heathland and watched first one , then another , high against the clear blue sky . |
| 2 | After Ken went , they drove off to Hornsey in the ambulance and stopped first for a Chinese meal — much against Lou 's wishes ; she does n't like Chinese — followed by a session at the pub . |
| 3 | First-time buyers and those starting a fresh finance agreement can still normally get this type of insurance , but they are likely to find tough terms and conditions attached to it such as higher premiums and delayed first payments . |
| 4 | In 1868 the Sickerts moved to England and settled first in Bedford , and then in Notting Hill , where they were part of an artistic and literary circle that included the families of William Morris and ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones , and later Oscar Wilde [ qq.v . ] |
| 5 | He got to his feet and looked first at his companions and then at Nicholson , who nodded , a slight smile creasing his lips . |
| 6 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 7 | Stevie had the honour and drove first . |
| 8 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 9 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 10 | In the one Caddie Competition Charlie played in ( 1921 or 1922 ) , he was loaned some of Mr. de Ville 's clubs and won first prize . |
| 11 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 12 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 13 | Next to arrive was the photographer , who plugged in arc lights and photographed first the body from every angle and then every single object in the room in the minutest detail . |
| 14 | Tug slumped into a chair and looked first to one side and then to the other . |
| 15 | V. P. Dzhelepov , who had earlier discovered the temperature dependence of muon catalysed fusion and stimulated first Gershtein and Vesman and now Ponomarev , organised an experimental investigation at Dubna ( a nuclear laboratory near Moscow ) . |
| 16 | When Smith finally resumed his studies at Oxford he managed to compress his delayed undergraduate career into just 18 months , during which short time he won the university 's most prestigious classics prize and gained first class honours in both classics and mathematics . |
| 17 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 18 | Stolen early on in the Revolution , the Regent diamond was recovered by the French Adjutant-General and pawned first to a German banker and then to a Dutchman to secure loans . |
| 19 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 20 | Graham began climbing with the Edinburgh JMCS and shared first ascents of significant Scottish routes like Parallel B Gully , Lochnager ( 1958 ) , Smith 's gully on Creag Meaghaidh ( 1959 ) and Vanishing Gully on Ben Nevis ( 1961 ) . |
| 21 | Two years later , Paul saw Sinead on stage with Ton Ton Macoute in Dublin and witnessed first hand the raw emotion she could generate in a performance . |
| 22 | When a genial Belgian couple , came to Italy looking for a home , they discovered the Mariano Estate and fell first for its perfect views . |