Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] a first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The median age divides the women into two equal size groups ; one half of the women first married ( or had a first birth ) at a younger and one half at an older age . |
| 2 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 3 | Patel 's seventh-wicket pairing with Cairns had reached record proportions on Day 4 by the time , when 97 , he pulled Lewis towards the midwicket boundary and sensed a first Test century . |
| 4 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 5 | The old man dipped his nose and took a first careful sip . |
| 6 | She then went to Wycombe Abbey , left at seventeen and took a first in modern history from the Society of Home Students ( later St Anne 's College ) in Oxford in 1905 . |
| 7 | He went through the ritual of lighting the cigar and took a first luxurious puff before continuing : ‘ It 's not easy to put this sort of thing in proper perspective . ’ |
| 8 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 9 | Studied at Trinity College of Music , London and won a First in Music at Newton Park ( Bath ) . |
| 10 | His war service after Cambridge , where he was an exhibitioner at Gonville and Caius College and gained a first in English , pointed the way to his future career . |
| 11 | He was young to be going up to Cambridge , but was taken on there and gained a first in Preliminary Natural Sciences . |
| 12 | He was a King 's scholar at Eton College ( 1866–71 ) and went on to King 's College , Cambridge , where he was a Browne 's medallist ( Greek epigrams ) in 1874 and gained a first in the classical tripos in 1875 . |
| 13 | Instead , the selectors opted for Peter Richardson , who silenced the critics by qualifying for Barcelona but suffered a first round knockout by Stone 12 months ago . |
| 14 | At Oxford he lost his faith but gained a first at Balliol , in Law . |