Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
| 2 | From some of the illustrations we have already noted in our first chapter concerning Jeanne Dixon , there is circumstantial evidence to support these gifts . |
| 3 | Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections . |
| 4 | By then , not only had the Nationalist seventh Division failed to enter Madrid , it had also failed in its first attempt to isolate the city from its northern defences in the Sierra de Guadarrama . |
| 5 | His extraordinary revenue came , in the nature of things , in irregular bursts , mostly concentrated in his first ten years . |
| 6 | He holds pubs in thrall to his Welsh past — the stories which would be told afresh for a lifetime now emerge in their first edition — and his childhood , far from seeming a ball and chain in this airy court of privilege , glowed into a magic kingdom to match any of them . |
| 7 | Louis had now taken in his first partner , Hyman Silverman . |
| 8 | Wainwright may play this weekend , McIntosh certainly will but London Scottish do not anticipate Sharp featuring in their first XV for the rest of the season as he is still troubled by his leg break . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the outbreak of the War restricted their entry into service , and the new sun saloons which were delivered between August and October , got little use in their first season . |
| 10 | You know , I thought he was about fifty odd , but what I must mention Jane , must n't forget in his first race in the three o'clock , he came last on Ruddy Cheek . |
| 11 | Yet , despite being Britain 's only world championship claimant at that time , he was relatively unknown outside boxing circles and had boxed most of his important contests outside the UK , winning the European title in 1976 in Rome , then drawing in his first world title attempt in Berlin in 1977 , before finally taking the title in San Remo . |
| 12 | The way in which the three parts of Hobbes 's system are meant to hang together and the methodology by which they are worked out in detail is , of course , most fully explained in its first part , De Corpore . |
| 13 | Its salvation twenty years later attests to the dramatic shift in Brooke-Rose 's values , her style , and her approach to narrative problems , but her propensity to see personal identity and social interaction in terms of language is nevertheless firmly established in her first novel . |