Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [noun] first " in BNC.

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1 Jardine agreed letting Johnstone in the boat first .
2 The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt .
3 THE BACK line which Gary Hill is convinced is best for Heybridge Swifts is back in action for today 's visit to play Tooting and Mitcham in the Diadora First Division .
4 A third centre of jade-working was that still active in New Zealand as the Maori first came under the direct observation of European explorers , colonists and ethnologists .
5 ALL around Feethams during the Durham-Somerset first day we posed the same question : before leg spinner Ian Salisbury 's inclusion in yesterday 's England squad , which England cricketer last had the same name as an English cathedral city ?
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