Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 2 | Councillor Grubb today made the first call to the helpline . |
| 3 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 4 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |
| 5 | This should always be double checked when you issue the first invoice to a new customer . |
| 6 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 7 | to join the triangles to the shelf cover , place the right sides together and pine the first triangle to the centre of the shelf cover . |
| 8 | President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat began the first visit to the United States by a Mongolian head of state on Jan. 22 . |
| 9 | The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd . |
| 10 | Short lost the first game to the Russian on time after failing to make 40 moves in his allotted two hours . |
| 11 | James Roberts delivered the first volume to the subscribers in April , 1748 [ GM , 18 ( 1748 ) , 192 ] . |
| 12 | Why not take the first step to a happy ending — and complete the coupon right now ? |
| 13 | He removed Ace 's explosives from his pockets , and fixed the first pack to the ceiling directly above him , flicking the arming switch with the sensor positioned ahead . |
| 14 | ‘ It is only simple , ’ she apologised as she brought the first course to the table . |
| 15 | In Wardington take the first turn to the left on entering the village , it is signposted to ‘ Edgcote ’ . |
| 16 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 17 | All accepted entries will be examined and the judges will award the first prize to the entrant they consider has shown the greatest skill and judgement in placing the eight letters in the order most likely to appeal to a typical IDEAL HOME reader . |
| 18 | As shown in Figure 2.13 , these range from trivial ones such as merely copying the first operand to the more useful ones discussed above . |
| 19 | To join the triangles to the shelf cover , place the right sides together and pin the first triangle to the centre of the shelf cover . |
| 20 | In addition he served with great distinction in the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary and , having reached the statutory rule of fifteen years service , ‘ retired ’ from the Royal Infirmary to become the first surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 21 | That type may then be broken up or ‘ distributed ’ , if the publisher has decided to limit the first edition to a stated number , or if there is no demand for additional copies . |