Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 2 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 3 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 4 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 5 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 6 | Electricity companies sparkled for the first part of the year . |
| 7 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 8 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 9 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 10 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 11 | At least seventy three percent of all foetuses aborted in the first trimester are male . |
| 12 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 13 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 14 | The revelations emerged on the first day of the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , representing the worst possible news for beleaguered international athletics officials coming hot on the heels of the repeat Ben Johnson scandal . |
| 15 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 16 | Our problems started on the first pitch . |
| 17 | United 's problems started in the first half when Brentford went ahead with a freak a fluke goal from Gary Blissett … that knocked the stuffing out of them … |
| 18 | The floods started in the first week of February , killing at least 230 people and sweeping away farmland , roads , irrigation networks and power lines . |
| 19 | I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’ |
| 20 | But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle . |
| 21 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 22 | Prices fell throughout the first half of 1990 due largely to the anticipated failure of the Association of Tin Producing Countries ( ATPC ) to attain by December 1990 its target of cutting by 6,000 tonnes its world stockpile , reported in February to have totalled 43,200 tonnes . |
| 23 | on quite a few occasions , Windows ran until the first time I rebooted the computer . |
| 24 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 25 | Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum . |
| 26 | During the study , it was also used to address some of the issues uncovered during the first Activity , particularly with regard to cooperation and coordination . |
| 27 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 28 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 29 | Seen purely through the eyes of a bomber captain , the year 1942 saw the awakening of the " sleeping giant " , but although no dramatic results ensued in the first half of the year save the " 1,000-Plan " ( surely the most well-conceived confidence trick of the entire war ) hope for the future was clearly manifest . |
| 30 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |