Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the new generation of non-English church leaders in Australia , he led the campaign for Anglican women priests , and planned to ordain the first in Melbourne next year . |
| 2 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 3 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
| 4 | After a meal which bore sumptuous witness to the Riverside Country House Hotel 's reputation for reasonably priced and lovingly prepared local game and produce , we soaked in the charming 17th Century atmosphere and began to plan the first of our walks . |
| 5 | After a meal which bore sumptuous witness to the Riverside Country House Hotel 's reputation for reasonably priced and lovingly prepared local game and produce , we soaked in the charming 17th Century atmosphere and began to plan the first of our walks . |
| 6 | Coleridge had worked intensely , under Southey 's close scrutiny , to prepare the lectures , and had written the first at a single sitting between midnight and breakfast-time on the day it was delivered . |
| 7 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 8 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 9 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 10 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 11 | The first letter is very probably authentic , the second probably forged and intended to reinforce the first letter . |