Example sentences of "and [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I learnt about the Greeks and Romans , and about Christ , and about the first white men in America and the sad story of the Indians . |
| 2 | Mabbott was also employed to supply news to the borough of Hull from 1652 to 1656 , during and after the first Anglo-Dutch war . |
| 3 | He was cold to the bone , and with the first faint grey of pre-dawn he got up and began to walk the passageway , stamping his chilled feet with an infinitely small , puny sound against the flags of the flooring . |
| 4 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 5 | Yet from the first the doctrinaire employment of recitative was tempered by occasional songs , dances , and instrumental pieces ; and in the first real masterpiece of the new genre , Monteverdi 's Orfeo of 1607 , the element of vocal melody — even virtuosity — bulked much more considerably . |
| 6 | And in the first main pamphlet ( January 1753 ) Grimm conceived of ‘ the Woodchopper ’ ( see the epigraph above ) . |
| 7 | In 457 , when she was already fighting on two fronts , in Egypt and in the first Peloponnesian War , Athens made an alliance with Segesta ( ML 37 ) . |
| 8 | His reputation as an architect was based notably on St George 's church , completed in 1734 on the site of Liverpool 's castle , and on the first architectural stone-fronted dwelling house in Liverpool in Hanover Street , c .1740 . |
| 9 | For a word like ‘ button ’ , or ‘ bottle ’ , it would be necessary to add and to the first post-final set ; the argument would be extended to include the in ‘ Hungary ’ . |
| 10 | Over the years , the VMA gradually became a students ' association and at the first general meeting of its 45th session , on 19 October 1880 , John H. Steel , the secretary and librarian , announced ‘ the Veterinary Medical Association , while having wide sympathies with its members who have become qualified practitioners , is now the Students ’ Society of the largest British Veterinary School' . |
| 11 | Labour won the election of October 1964 by a whisker , though the event itself was overshadowed internationally by the fall of Khrushchev in the USSR and by the first Chinese nuclear test . |