Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] to the first " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed .
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