Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun] [vb past] first " in BNC.

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1 Alcester , Twyford , Whitmore Reans and Dutton Opens went first on the the Avon , canals and Earlswood lakes soon followed by the Kidderminster and Warwich matches .
2 Then at Monza , with modified combustion chambers , Graham and Ritchie Ginther finished first and second with pole position and fastest lap too — the lot .
3 The Crawley AC pair of Charlie Malmsbury and David Beattie shared first place after a four-minute difference at the half-way stage .
4 Somerville 's Cross-Country and Tennis Teams came first in the annual Cuppers competition while the Hockey Team reached the final .
5 A joint effort by Valerie Dennis and Anita Clifford took first prize ( box of chocolates ) for correctly matching all twenty-eight people using clues .
6 His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago .
7 Back in 1972 , he and Camilla Shand found first real love .
8 Reed chairman Peter Davis commented : ‘ In May 1991 I explained that our existing publishing and information business had first priority so far as further investment was concerned and that we had decided not to join our partners in putting more funds into BSkyB .
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