Example sentences of "[pron] took [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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1 | But I took him first to Connor 's Quay to join a sh erm ship there . |
2 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
3 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
4 | They took it first of all it would be in a cart drawn by a horse . |
5 | Dr Macdonald 's report was the shorter ; he took it first . |