Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 2 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 3 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 4 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 5 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |