Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 3 | But that was the word Morse repeated to the first question Lewis put to him about Lucy 's progress at 8.30 a.m. on the Tuesday . |
| 4 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 5 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |