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Example sentences for "being first"

  • Skate may either be boiled, or fried in crumbs, being first dipped in egg.

  • A loin of mutton baked in batter, being first cleared of most of the fat, makes a good dish.

  • Melt the butter, and mix well with it; then add the yolks of fifteen eggs well beaten, and as much fresh candied orange as will add colour and flavour to it, being first beaten to a fine paste.

  • Next morning, being First-day, we went to the meeting in the orchard, where the soldiers had lately been so rude.

  • The day after, being First-day, we had a meeting there.

  • Next day, being First-day, I was at the public meeting of Friends there, which was very large and peaceable.

  • Externally, the bruised leaves are of excellent service for cleansing and stimulating foul sores and ulcers, being first macerated in a Cabbage leaf with warmth.

  • The Mulberry tree (Morus nigra) has been cultivated in England since the middle of the sixteenth century, being first planted at Sion house in 1548.

  • Beads for rosaries are made in Barbary from Date stones turned in a lathe; or when soaked in water for a couple of days the stones may be given to cattle as a nutritious food, being first ground in a mill.

  • The toilet of the Ancients was never considered complete without an infusion, or spirit of Rosemary; and in olden times Rosemary was entwined in the wreath worn by the bride at the altar, being first dipped in scented water.

  • National superiority can only be maintained by being first in the race, and not by buying inventions of other nations.

  • Moore-Brabazon, was a famous figure in the days of exhibition flying, and won his reputation mainly through being first to fly a circular mile on a machine designed and built in Great Britain and piloted by a British subject.

  • The radial type of engine, thanks to Charles Manly, had the honour of being first in the field as regards aero work.

  • As in the case of aeroplane flight, as soon as the balloon was proved practicable the flight across the English Channel was talked of, and Rozier, who had the honour of the first flight, announced his intention of being first to cross.

  • She was both widow and virgine when he maried hir, being first coupled in wedlocke with one Eunbert a noble [Sidenote: Giruij.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being alone; being brought; being captured; being careful; being confined; being contrary; being converted; being disturbed; being easily; being full; being good; being known; being like; being minded; being miserable; being modernized; being observed; being prepared; being rather; being related; being somewhat; being then; being unwilling; departed from; farm life; grant them