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Collocations for first - noun

1. (also first gear) lowest gear on a bicycle/vehicle

VERB + first

get into, move into, slam into
As he moved into first, the engine made a strange noise.
engage (formal)
She engaged first gear and pulled off.
put sth into
Put the car into first and pull off slowly.
find
It's very difficult to find first on this car.

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PREPOSITION

in first
I had to drive all the way home in first.

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2. (BrE) highest level of university degree

ADJECTIVE

double
She did Philosophy and English Literature and got a double first.

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VERB + first

be awarded, gain, get, obtain

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PREPOSITION

first in
He got a first in modern history.

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Collocations for first - adj.

First is used with these nouns:
communion, world

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First is used with these nouns:
act, aim, album, anniversary, appearance, appointment, arrival, attempt, ballot, batter, bid, boyfriend, chamber, chapter, choice, course, cousin, dance, date, degree, division, draft, edition, encounter, episode, finger, floor, frost, gear, generation, girlfriend, glimpse, guess, half, hint, hurdle, husband, importance, impression, impulse, inclination, inhabitant, inkling, instalment, instinct, job, kiss, lady, language, lap, leg, love, manifestation, marriage, measure, meeting, memory, mention, mortgage, mouthful, move, movement, name, night, novel, objective, offence, offender, offer, option, overtime, page, pang, part, phase, portion, position, post, preference, pregnancy, prerequisite, priority, prize, quarter, rank, reaction, recommendation, record, recording, refusal, report, round, row, rule, school, secretary, seed, semester, sergeant, settler, shock, shot, sign, signatory, single, sip, skirmish, snow, snowfall, soprano, stab, stage, step, storey, syllable, symphony, taste, team, term, thing, third, thought, time, train, try, violin, visit, volume, voyage, warning, wave, wife

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Collocations for first - adv.

First is used with these verbs:
appear, discover, encounter, introduce, meet, propose

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