Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |
| 2 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 3 | Under the leadership of the acting chair Kyi Maung , the NLD contacted the SLORC for the first time on June 21 , requesting national reconciliation talks . |
| 4 | The fact that Virgin Atlantic had won the licence to fly the Atlantic in the first place was , he said , a brave move on the part of the Civil Aviation Authority , given the Laker experience , but also a measure of government policy . |
| 5 | On trying the TL for the first time , more than one recently deafened person has said with astonishment , ‘ The world has come alive again . ’ |
| 6 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 7 | The tradition comes from the end of the 19th century when a succession of designers and craftsmen discoverd the Cotswolds for the first time . |