Example sentences of "and [vb past] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham began climbing with the Edinburgh JMCS and shared first ascents of significant Scottish routes like Parallel B Gully , Lochnager ( 1958 ) , Smith 's gully on Creag Meaghaidh ( 1959 ) and Vanishing Gully on Ben Nevis ( 1961 ) . |
| 2 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 3 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 4 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 5 | Moved to the Royal College of Music , London in 1990 and won first prize at the Edward Boyle Piano Competition in December of that year . |
| 6 | But it flew well enough to confound the sceptics and won first place at the April 1978 Maryland Kite Festival . |
| 7 | Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ . |
| 8 | He entered King 's College , Cambridge , in 1903 , and gained first classes in both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1905 and 1907 ) . |