Example sentences of "[vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 2 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 3 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 4 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 5 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 6 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 7 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 8 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 9 | ‘ You know , ’ whispered the first one , ‘ we should be okay as long as the batteries on our torches hold out . |
| 10 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 11 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 12 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 13 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 14 | As a leading suffragette , she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907 . |
| 15 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 16 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 17 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 18 | On 2 November , two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation passed the first reading of a draft law on export and import of works of art . |
| 19 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 20 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 21 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |
| 22 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 23 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |
| 24 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 25 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 26 | In his New Year message in January 1990 Lee designated the First Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister , Goh Chok Tong , 48 , as his successor , indicating that he would take over " before the end of 1990 " [ see also p. 37085 ] . |
| 27 | Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent . |
| 28 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 29 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 30 | She made the first breach in my armourplating of male superiority . |