Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 2 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 3 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 4 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 5 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |