Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’
2 At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play .
3 As Hilary Graham pointed out in the first edition of this book :
4 Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out .
5 Ho looked round for the first time at the massed ranks of Glories with their headlights blazing , and the two figures , stark in the hard glaring light of those headlights , seated opposite each other at the stone table under the Monument .
6 Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half .
7 After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’
8 Iwan Tukalo shot over for the first .
9 Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there .
10 So I think Jimmy traced back to the first
11 The RPR candidate , Charles Pasqua dropped out after the first round .
12 Treleaven strolled out for the first play-off hole , the par-four 10th , and saw off all opposition with a birdie three on the second most difficult hole on the course .
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