Example sentences of "he [verb] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like me , he has a first class assistant boss in Colin McCurdy . |
| 2 | And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally . |
| 3 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 4 | In 1864 he received a first class in classical honour moderations , and then in 1867 a first in literae humaniores , even though he was said to have read no more than half the required books . |
| 5 | He obtained a first class in part i ( 1906 ) and a second ( division I ) in part ii ( 1907 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 6 | Clough was educated at Rugby School and St John 's College , Cambridge , where he obtained a first class in the natural sciences tripos in 1874 and an MA in 1878 . |
| 7 | He obtained a first class in part i of the history tripos in 1941 . |
| 8 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 9 | He suffers a first conflict of loyalties when he helps the strange man who calls himself Faraway Moses to escape from the Riders and learns that a confederacy is working in secret to reform a government that favours rich against poor , ‘ not with rifle and sword ’ , as the conspirator tells Dick , but : |
| 10 | He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later . |
| 11 | After winning scholarships at Winchester and at Balliol College , Oxford , he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1924 and was elected to a fellowship of All Souls which he held till 1945 . |
| 12 | He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward . |
| 13 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived in Sofia on Aug. 3 as the guest of President Zhelyu Zhelev , with whom he held a first round of talks the same day , signing a 10-year treaty of friendship and cooperation before leaving on Aug. 4 . |
| 14 | 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 . |