Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the first of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 2 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 3 | Reward came immediately with the first of 21 caps . |
| 4 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 5 | And of course we broke up , we broke up on the first of August er for the er month holiday you see ? |
| 6 | ESSEX champions Braintree 's challenge for promotion to the East Super League started well in the first of three play-off matches against Pelicans , from King 's Lynn . |
| 7 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 8 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 9 | What 'appened there on the first of June last year were n't just a tragedy , oh no . |
| 10 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 11 | 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 . |