Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 2 | As I opened the door , a white streak flashed past my ankles and vanished around the first turn of the spiral . |
| 3 | Indeed , a striking and major aspect of the final volumes of À la Recherche is their often cruel analysis of the moral bankruptcy and social collapse of this salon world , during the years that culminated in the First World War . |
| 4 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 5 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 6 | European car sales in 1992 sustained previous record levels but declined in the first quarter of calendar year 1993 . |
| 7 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 8 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |