Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
6 | She stopped and listened , and heard first laughter and then a voice shouting , ‘ For God 's sake . ’ |
7 | THAT FRIDAY EVENING the wind changed , and brought first rain , then snow . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He entered King 's College , Cambridge , in 1903 , and gained first classes in both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1905 and 1907 ) . |