Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came into the first form of his boarding school . |
| 2 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 3 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 4 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
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| 6 | YOU COME WITH A FIRST CLASS PEDIGREE |
| 7 | It was a pleasant walk along well-trodden paths through Birbeck Woods beyond which we came upon the first set of workings in Gunnerside Gill : the remains of dressing floors belonging to the Old Gang Mining Company . |
| 8 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 9 | If we win without it , we come in the first five that 's all well and good . |
| 10 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 11 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 12 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 13 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 14 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 15 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 16 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 17 | Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains . |
| 18 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 19 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 20 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 21 | But when it came to the first anecdote the tale of her son 's embarrassing performance in a school Nativity play the old professional skills suddenly shone through . |
| 22 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 23 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |
| 24 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |