Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] a first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His war service after Cambridge , where he was an exhibitioner at Gonville and Caius College and gained a first in English , pointed the way to his future career . |
| 2 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 3 | The old man dipped his nose and took a first careful sip . |
| 4 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 5 | Patel 's seventh-wicket pairing with Cairns had reached record proportions on Day 4 by the time , when 97 , he pulled Lewis towards the midwicket boundary and sensed a first Test century . |
| 6 | He went through the ritual of lighting the cigar and took a first luxurious puff before continuing : ‘ It 's not easy to put this sort of thing in proper perspective . ’ |