Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 2 | So we 've got , I did have the first names somewhere . |
| 3 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 4 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 5 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 6 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 7 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 8 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 9 | The King had ridden everywhere that autumn , but he had spent longest with Thor and Dunegal and Leofwine in Cumbria , where he had gleaned the first tidings of Duke William 's victory against his rebel kinsmen . |