Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 2 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 3 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 4 | Bukharin gave us the first fully algebraic exposition of accumulation in the Marxist tradition ; and as such his contribution marked a turning point in discussions of the reproduction schemas , since he was able to formulate general conditions of capitalist development . |
| 5 | Il Moro won , becoming the first challenger to claim a finals place , while Nippon 's loss to New Zealand made her the first to be eliminated . |
| 6 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |