Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 2 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
| 3 | The journals in which researchers published the first paper relating to their research are shown in the following ranked table . |
| 4 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 5 | In 1933 he starred with Wallace Beery in The Bowery , which included a fight scene on a barge in which Beery landed the first blow . |
| 6 | Which ground staged the first Test in this country ? ( 6 ) 3 . |
| 7 | Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies . |
| 8 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 9 | Her mother answered the first call on February 2 when Cardwell gave the name Tara and asked Tricia to call her back . |
| 10 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 11 | His father struck the first chord and Davide began , |