Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 2 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 3 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 4 | Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right . |
| 5 | Stage 1 invites group members to spend five minutes in quiet reflection , a space in which to clear minds crowded with concerns of the teaching day , to focus on the cartoon and commit their first reactions to paper . |
| 6 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 7 | As Garry 's already mentioned started back in nineteen eighty five and delivered its first products in eighty seven . |
| 8 | It also gives participants an opportunity to see the complete video and express their first impressions . |
| 9 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 10 | The same year he resigned from teaching and , helped by influential friends made while collecting material for his museums , undertook a variety of part-time jobs and published his first books , until in 1862 he became a civil servant on the staff of the India Museum , where he remained until 1880 . |
| 11 | You can still go into a music store in Honolulu and buy his first records . |