Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] first in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book , which appeared first in 1936 , is the publication of Hubble 's ( eight ) Silliman Lectures in Yale University , along with a preface and introduction in which , incidentally , he explains why he spoke of nebulae rather than galaxies . |
| 2 | This , of course , is the actual decoration of the room , the process which comes first in most areas , but certainly last in the kitchen planning sequence . |
| 3 | Excuse me , excuse me who came first in the Chemistry exam ? |
| 4 | Today at the Grosvenor House hotel in London she came first in the Webb Ivory fundraising awards … but she says winning prizes was never her goal . |
| 5 | Sir Daniel Macnee , Scotland 's leading portrait painter of his day and President of the Royal Scottish Academy , painted boxes at Cumnock as a young man , and William Leighton Leitch who worked first in Cumnock and then for the Smith brothers , later found fame in London as a water-colourist and for over 20 years visited Buckingham Palace and other royal residences where he taught painting to Queen Victoria and her family . |
| 6 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 7 | A tree index is one in which the top level of the index , which is the one consulted first in a search for a record , points to lower levels of the index . |
| 8 | … We stayed first in Colindale . |
| 9 | For twelve years , until the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 , they lived first in County Mayo and then in Rutledge Terrace , Salthill , about a mile from the centre of Galway . |
| 10 | They came first in 66 wards and emerged as the only national political party other than Labour and the Conservatives with any metropolitan councillors . |
| 11 | They stayed first in the hotel and were still living there when John was born . |
| 12 | Hard disks can be huge , so DOS does n't search the whole thing for a matching name ; instead it looks first in the current directory and then in the subdirectories which are specified in the PATH command . |
| 13 | South Africa , Mexico , Brazil , Spain , San Marino , France , Britain , Germany — he came first in them all as his mighty Renault-Williams car blazed to triumph after triumph . |
| 14 | JOHN Harding proved he was top of the spots when he came first in Alexandra Pottery 's annual dominoes competition . |
| 15 | He came first in the test at the end of the day with a mere 100% . |
| 16 | During the war he served first in the ranks in Mesopotamia and subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Air Force . |
| 17 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 18 | The arrest of Hains , nicknamed ‘ Le Duc de Bourgogne ’ after galleries he ran first in Dijon and then in Le Louvre de Antiquaires in Paris , is expected to be followed by many more . |
| 19 | He married first in early 1600 Catherine , daughter of William Killegrew of Hanworth , Middlesex , by whom he had one daughter and four sons , including Thomas and Henry ; secondly Mary ( died 1679 ) , daughter of Edmund Barber of Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , and widow of Thomas Newton of Edgefield , Norfolk , by whom he had a son and a daughter . |
| 20 | He married first in 1877 , Mary , daughter of ( Sir ) William Bowman [ q.v. ] , oculist . |
| 21 | He stayed first in New York with Robert Giroux , and then went down to Washington partly in order to see Ezra Pound . |
| 22 | He comes first in all his races . |
| 23 | However , despite a wealth of fascinating data , she was unable to untangle the causal sequence and be sure about what came first in order to conclude when and how support had been protective . |
| 24 | Over the years , it has never been certain , except in the very simplest cases , what comes first in scientific research . |