Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain . |
| 2 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 3 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 4 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 5 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 6 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |