Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa . |
| 2 | The previous holder of the office , Alain Poher , was aged 80 and had first been installed on his throne in 1968 . |
| 3 | This highly complex area was treated in full and led first to a parliamentary statement in 1978 and then , in 1982 , to new Guidelines For Aggregates Provision in England and Wales . |
| 4 | The son of another Civizade who was , in 945/1539 , to become Mufti , the younger Civizade was born in 937/1530–1 and studied first under his father , with whom he went on the pilgrimage in 950/1544 , his father having just previously been removed from the Muftilik . |
| 5 | The victim he portrays is Freddie Mills , champion British boxer of the 1940s who became a celebrity in the '50s and opened first a restaurant and then a nightclub . |
| 6 | Moved to the Royal College of Music , London in 1990 and won first prize at the Edward Boyle Piano Competition in December of that year . |