Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] first [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But for the first of the month you have these two letters E R.
2 By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate .
3 But in the first of these scenes , Act One scene two , the intensity is not yet , of course , such that the monologue occupies the entire dramatic space .
4 But in the first of the new series , we 're offered more than a glimpse into his past , when we meet Susan Fallon .
5 But in the first of a short series on the changes in Europe , Kim Barnes discovers European constituents everywhere are bewildered .
6 They are based on the circular setting , but on the first of the four rows ( row two ) the ribber must tuck .
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