Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | Stolen early on in the Revolution , the Regent diamond was recovered by the French Adjutant-General and pawned first to a German banker and then to a Dutchman to secure loans . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I am willing to use my skills as a paramedic to accompany someone requiring medical care or to instruct first aid to any organisation in exchange for the flight , ’ she said . |
| 6 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 7 | Single : ( also known as base hit ) when a batter hits the ball in fair territory and reaches first base without being thrown out . |
| 8 | When I got home , I would buy a new computer and explore first DesignaKnit and then other software packages . |
| 9 | We come therefore , to the substantive application and to note first the legal principles governing the public interest immunity attaching to this class of documents . |
| 10 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |