Example sentences of "he gained [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gained a First in English at Cambridge and was a cricket blue . |
| 2 | In 1930 he won an open scholarship to read modern history at Trinity College , Cambridge , and he gained a first in part i of the modern history tripos ( 1932 ) , and an aegrotat in part ii ( 1933 ) . |
| 3 | He had been a scholar at Winchester and at Magdalen , where he gained a First in Law and got his Blue for cricket . |
| 4 | He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history . |
| 5 | In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute . |