Example sentences of "[pers pn] came [prep] the 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 6 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 7 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 13 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |