Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE OAKLAND Athletics came back to win the first game of the best-of-seven American League championship series with a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays , on Tuesday . |
| 2 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 3 | This awful and we 'd actually got the first window here which is which is . |
| 4 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 5 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 7 | This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain . |
| 8 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 9 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 10 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 11 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 12 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 13 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 14 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 15 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 16 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 17 | ( Thus a child who did not reach the first birthday is counted as zero year old ; from 12 completed months to 23 completed months as one year old , etc . ) |
| 18 | Lord Hope did not accept the first submission on behalf of the pursuers , which was to the effect that when the completed application form was sent to the building society the pursuers had accepted an offer made by the society to consider the application , as , unlike in Hunter v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Co , 19O9SC ( HL ) 3O , the building society in the present case had not given any undertaking to consider the application and were under no obligation to do so . |
| 19 | I did n't discover the first snail or the first nettle that sprouted up on this planet . |
| 20 | I do all the things I did n't do the first time . |
| 21 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 22 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 23 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 24 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 25 | What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ? |
| 26 | ‘ He did n't know the first thing about you , did he ? ’ |
| 27 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 28 | If the ruse did n't work the first time , it invariably did on the second occasion . |
| 29 | Letting me think that you slept with so many men you did n't have the first idea who the father was ! ’ |
| 30 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |