Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 3 | I looked back at the first . |
| 4 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 5 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 6 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 7 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 8 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 9 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 10 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 11 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 12 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 13 | We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive . |
| 14 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 15 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 16 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 18 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 19 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 20 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 21 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 22 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 23 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 24 | But he lost out on the First Division title because he was reluctant to strengthen the team . |
| 25 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 26 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |
| 27 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 28 | Andy Payton was denied with a good Bobby Mimms save as he burst through on the first occasion . |