Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 he founded another seminary , St Vincent 's College , Langbank , and served as its first rector until 1974 . |
| 2 | He also won four full England caps and netted on his first two appearances . |
| 3 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 4 | He paid and left for his first call at a dealer 's house in the Place du Bourg-de-Four . |
| 5 | He taught her brother how to roll a cigarette , and she remembered him doubling up with delighted laughter as the boy coughed and spluttered on his first smoke . |
| 6 | Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble . |