Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the first [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 2 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 3 | This is a combination of the list we used for the first plan and the list used for the draft of the second plan . |
| 4 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 5 | Witt , a big-serving 6ft 3ins American , produced a disastrous 12 double faults in the match but most of those came in the first set and a half when Wilkinson could hardly put a foot wrong . |
| 6 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 7 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 8 | ‘ We opened for the first time and we 're doing extremely well , ’ said assistant manager Greg Hughes . |
| 9 | Accompanied by his wife , whom he had married shortly before sailing , Johnson arrived with the first fleet and celebrated the first Anglican service under ‘ a great tree ’ at Sydney cove on 3 February 1788 . |
| 10 | Treviso , who finished as runners-up in the Italian league , flourished in the first half and took the lead with a second try . |
| 11 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 12 | Charlotte stepped into the first compartment and sat down , the station was now a hive of activity , Charlotte leaned out of the window and watched the guard 's van being loaded up with milk churns , sacks of mail , and boxes of red roses . |
| 13 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 15 | This was n't sufficient to make up the ground lost in the first half and the outcome for the year as a whole , you now see . |
| 16 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 17 | Anyway , we got to the first tee and one of these immaculate guys got his driver out and hit the ball about 15 yards — and took a divot out you could put a pot plant into . |
| 18 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 19 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 20 | Two gunmen went to the first floor and opened fire on two men in the salon , fatally injuring Mr Hughes . |
| 21 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 22 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 23 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 25 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 26 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 27 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 28 | In The Faerie Queene , Spenser wrote of the first man and woman as ‘ Elfe … and Fay … [ of ] whom all Fayres spring ’ : |
| 29 | Making his 17th successive appearance since replacing Henry Smith in December , Walker was voted man of the match , which was mainly thanks to a fingertip save from a Michael O'Neill shot in the first half and a crucial stop which denied Paddy Connolly with only ten minutes remaining . |
| 30 | Karl paused at the first block and then started back , looking truly astonished . |