Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 2 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 3 | Kaz and I went first ; what a thrill it was . |
| 4 | The fact that Ian and I arrived first gives us priority , and it was extremely foolish of you to set up in opposition . |
| 5 | But then at two or three after midnight , a stack of dishes in the sink promising her a greasy good morning , Martin would feel drunkenly randy and she fought first her tiredness then her ( unreasonable ? ) anger when the next evening was the same . |
| 6 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 7 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 8 | Queen Of Shannon 's jockey Michael Tebbutt showed plenty of enterprise when he and John Reid were the only riders to stick to the far rail for most of the race — and they finished first and second . |
| 9 | Brasenose awarded him a senior Hulme exhibition and he obtained first classes in mathematical moderations ( 1906 ) , mathematics ( 1908 ) , and engineering science ( 1910 ) . |
| 10 | I thought I 'll get Lianne one and hers came first . |