Example sentences of "[adv] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So first crack of the whip went to Graham .
2 If we just first look at the organization that we have , or perhaps more correctly will have following consultation , erm I think you will agree with me that the , the roles and responsibilities of those people are fairly well defined .
3 No newspaper in history has ever had such a lead story for its first ever first edition as the Glasgow Advertiser and Glasgow Herald , 207 years ago .
4 Why not set a few moments aside first thing in the morning and last thing at night ?
5 Meditation should ideally be practised for fifteen to twenty minutes daily , preferably first thing in the morning .
6 Eight minutes later Keen played Slater through and his square pass was rammed home first time by Bishop .
7 When his telling cross arrived in the danger area , Stainrod stole in on the blind side of the Perth defence to power the ball home first time from 12 yards .
8 Command of the main army was entrusted for the moment to a veteran Huguenot general , Sir John [ later first Earl of ] Ligonier , aged 65 , who had also been called back from the Continent , though it was understood he would become subordinate to Cumberland as soon as the latter was ready to take over .
9 He was arrested in London in 1723 for seditious libel , and again in 1732 for attacks on Sir Robert Walpole ( later first Earl of Orford ) and George II in The Royal Oak Journal .
10 Her father was the kinsman , friend , and protégé of Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , and she spent her childhood as the pampered daughter of a prospering family : ‘ I enjoyed great easiness and comfort during my honoured father 's life , having the fortunate opportunity … of the best education that kingdom could afford . ’
11 He got his sole opportunity in 1599 when he induced Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) to approve a copper coinage scheme for Ireland which was put into operation in 1601 , though he was not able to secure a monopoly for its production .
12 He died 10 November 1347 , leaving only a daughter , Margaret , who married Ralph Stafford , later first Earl of Stafford [ q.v . ] .
13 Lowther 's service under Savile probably explains why Sir Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) removed him from the commission to compound with recusants in July 1630 .
14 In January 1660 he became a captain in the regiment ( formerly Fleetwood 's ) of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , and the connection continued after the Restoration , when Lord Ashley ( as he had become ) was chancellor of the Exchequer , and Warcup , among other financial concessions , was a farmer of the excise in Wiltshire and Dorset .
15 In that same month Warcup had several meetings with the king and his ministers , Laurence Hyde , later first Earl of Rochester , and Sir Leoline Jenkins [ qq.v. ] ; and on 4 March the council ordered him £1,500 by privy seal , for his expenses .
16 Dering 's evident application , as well as a connection with Sir Heneage Finch ( later first Earl of Nottingham , q.v. ) , the newly appointed solicitor-general ( Dering had married his sister-in-law ) , marked him out for government office .
17 He also served with Blake and Edward Mountagu ( see Montagu , later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) on the expedition to the south in 1656 .
18 Early in 1656 he was appointed rear-admiral of the fleet being sent against Spain under Generals Robert Blake [ q.v. ] and Edward Mountagu ( later first Earl of Sandwich , q.v. ) , and took part in the long blockade of Cadiz .
19 Eclipsed by more dynamic colleagues , such as Anthony Ashley Cooper ( first Baron Ashley and later first Earl of Shaftesbury ) , Sir Thomas Clifford ( later first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh ) , and Sir William Coventry [ qq.v . ] ,
20 By 1859 she and Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( later first Earl of Lytton , q.v. ) were having a secret affair .
21 His name was on the list of H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) , had the prime minister been forced to create new Liberal peers in 1911 .
22 The evidence that Creevey was the natural son of Lord Molyneux , later first Earl of Sefton , is suggestive but not conclusive .
23 By Elizabethan standards Crosse was remarkably honest , reliable , and trustworthy ; qualities appreciated and much used by his superiors and by Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v . ) ,
24 His eldest surviving daughter , Elizabeth , was married in May 1678 , complete with a portion of £10,000 , to Heneage Finch [ q.v. ] , who became solicitor-general 1679–86 , second son of Heneage Finch ( later first Earl of Nottingham , q.v. ) , the lord chancellor .
25 , William , Viscount Cranborne and second Earl of Salisbury ( 1591–1668 ) , parliamentarian , was born in Westminster 28 March 1591 , the only son of Sir Robert Cecil ( later first Earl of Salisbury , q.v. ) , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of William Brooke , tenth Baron Cobham .
26 Before the end of Elizabeth 's reign he settled on the Sussex coast , at Offington in the parish of Broadwater , perhaps hoping to profit from his kinship with the local magnate , Thomas Sackville , later first Earl of Dorset [ q.v . ] .
27 In 1957 he entered the cabinet of Harold Macmillan ( later first Earl of Stockton ) as minister of housing and local government .
28 In July 1616 , on the embassy of James , Lord Hay ( later first Earl of Carlisle , q.v. ) in marriage negotiations between Princess Christina and Prince Charles , he suffered a serious accidental fall which left him in France for some months after the embassy .
29 His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices .
30 On this occasion Herbert was quite keen to accept , but H. H. Asquith , later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( a close family friend ) , was not encouraging and Sir Edward Grey ( later Viscount Grey of Falloden , q.v. ) , the foreign secretary , was against any British involvement in the Balkan tangle .
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