Example sentences of "and [vb past] a first in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then went to Wycombe Abbey , left at seventeen and took a first in modern history from the Society of Home Students ( later St Anne 's College ) in Oxford in 1905 . |
| 2 | Studied at Trinity College of Music , London and won a First in Music at Newton Park ( Bath ) . |
| 3 | His war service after Cambridge , where he was an exhibitioner at Gonville and Caius College and gained a first in English , pointed the way to his future career . |
| 4 | He was young to be going up to Cambridge , but was taken on there and gained a first in Preliminary Natural Sciences . |
| 5 | He was a King 's scholar at Eton College ( 1866–71 ) and went on to King 's College , Cambridge , where he was a Browne 's medallist ( Greek epigrams ) in 1874 and gained a first in the classical tripos in 1875 . |