Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 2 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 3 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 4 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |
| 5 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 6 | In between comes a short pièce d'occasion by Brahms , written in 1853 as a surprise birthday present for the violinist Joachim , and receiving its first commercial recording . |