Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 2 | THE recently expanded sales force met each other for the first time in September at their autumn sales meeting . |
| 3 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 4 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 5 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 6 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough had been at full stretch against Cambridge 's direct , high-ball game and their own attack posed little threat in the first half . |
| 8 | When Daniel Defoe came this way during the first quarter of the eighteenth century he observed that : |
| 9 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 10 | When the two towns faced each other in the first division … it was no contest … |
| 11 | Hereford lost this game in the first half . |
| 12 | The armies saw each other for the first time at just after eleven o'clock . |
| 13 | They saw each other for the first time on the fourth night of the marriage ceremonies and now have a son . |
| 14 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |
| 15 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 16 | I learned this principle in the first big event I was involved in : Billy Graham 's Crusade at Maine Road Stadium in Manchester in 1961 . |
| 17 | Who said we trusted each other in the first place ? |
| 18 | More than 50 senior executives from seven countries attended the Group Management Conference , held this year for the first time at Courtaulds Woodside training centre in Kenilworth . |