Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 2 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 3 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 4 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 5 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 6 | UK Life operations continued to perform well in the first three months of the year . |
| 7 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 8 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 10 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 11 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 12 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 13 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 14 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 15 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 16 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box . |
| 18 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 19 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 20 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 21 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 22 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 23 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 24 | It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot . |
| 25 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 26 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 27 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 28 | Embarking on a spell of 10 games in 25 days , which will decide their Second Division fate , Sunderland let slip a 2–1 advantage they had obtained early in the first half . |
| 29 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 30 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |