Example sentences of "and [conj] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using just four rows of pattern , this sample was worked on the Singer Big Nine and after the first four rows was extremely easy to work . |
| 2 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 3 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 4 | Talk to users themselves however , and after the first half dozen you will have concluded that drug use is a spiritual phenomenon . |
| 5 | But Macoun was there during an unusually wet season , and when the first white settlers arrived they faced immense hardship until they developed techniques for coping with this semi-arid environment . |
| 6 | Stories in Herodotus of Corinthian-Athenian rivalry in the Persian Wars go back , not to 480 , but to the 450s , when Herodotus was gathering his material and when the First Peloponnesian War was on . |