Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He got to his feet and looked first at his companions and then at Nicholson , who nodded , a slight smile creasing his lips . |
| 3 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 6 | Next to arrive was the photographer , who plugged in arc lights and photographed first the body from every angle and then every single object in the room in the minutest detail . |
| 7 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |