Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pound eventually abandoned botany for law , but Clements became professor first at Nebraska and then at Minnesota , before moving to the Carnegie Institution of Washington . |
| 2 | Born in 1921 in eastern Slovakia , Dubcek became party first secretary in January 1968 [ see p. 22528 ] as part of a wholesale removal of the previous stalinist leadership . |
| 3 | Bo Jackson put baseball first . |
| 4 | Bo Jackson put baseball first . |
| 5 | The Scot Basil Spence achieved recognition first , not as an architect of buildings , but as a designer of pavilions such as at the 1951 Festival of Britain . |
| 6 | Batty went head first over the top of somebody at one point , thereby earing the rage of the City crowd . |
| 7 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 8 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |