Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] with [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came down with a First and started his civil service career in the humble surroundings of the National Assistance Board . |
| 2 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 3 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 4 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 5 | She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year . |
| 6 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 7 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 8 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 9 | Assuming , as I am , the correctness of the Croydon decision , there can be no doubt that the appeal committee dealt correctly with the first stage . |