Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 4 | The seven year old spoke for the first time and darted away to return with the roll of foil . |
| 5 | She said she 's walked for the first time and felt exhausted . |
| 6 | A third building included a single-storey office which incorporated a design studio and dark room for the first time and enabled Laura to organize her print and pattern research . |
| 7 | Cal turned round for the first time and stared at Vern . |
| 8 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 9 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 10 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 11 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 12 | As they passed him , he looked directly at Midnight for the first time and said with genuine feeling : ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 13 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 14 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 15 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 16 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 17 | LUCKY Graham Frith , 35 , went fishing for the first time and caught almost 50 trout on the River Test in Hampshire . |
| 18 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 19 | ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls . |
| 20 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 21 | When we launched our boat in Rangkul for the first time and motored towards the islands where the birds were said to nest , it was with considerable relief that we saw there were indeed geese , and they were on eggs . |
| 22 | He was chosen for the first match but had to drop out with food poisoning . |
| 23 | After Juergen Klinsmann had fired the Germans ahead Riedle scored twice in five minutes midway through the first half and put Germany 4–1 clear with his third in the 59th minute . |
| 24 | He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree . |
| 25 | This was a mind concentrator of the first order and forced us to examine every facet of our business and the way we did things . |
| 26 | The number was extremely complicated so realising that completion would take some time , he took out advertisements a year before of the first performance and announced that bookings would be accepted for the unseen act . |
| 27 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
| 28 | Mr. Morgan was a friend of the first defendant and had become acquainted with the deceased through the first defendant . |
| 29 | The observance began on the fourteenth day of the first month and lasted for a week . |
| 30 | Accompanied by his wife , whom he had married shortly before sailing , Johnson arrived with the first fleet and celebrated the first Anglican service under ‘ a great tree ’ at Sydney cove on 3 February 1788 . |