Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 2 | The Ipswich number one scored 12 points on the first day , 14 on the second and 11 on the third . |
| 3 | THE Chicago Cubs scored six runs in the first inning as they beat the San Francisco Giants 9-5 at Wrigley Field on Thursday to level the National League championship series at 1-1 . |
| 4 | Colchester only scored six points in the first set but held off the Nomads for more than 27 minutes thanks to solid defence . |
| 5 | However a special helpline for patients , set up on 0204 390999 , received 100 calls in the first couple of hours . |
| 6 | Brannen came from behind to snatch a World Student Games bronze medal at the same track last July and remains confident of overhauling Kruger , a training partner as well as chief rival , who amassed 4,012 points in the first five events . |
| 7 | Against San Marino at Hampden in November 1991 , Scotland scored three times in the first half but then finished up with so many forwards that order went out the window and only one more goal was scored amid the scramble created by having Mo Johnston and Kevin Gallacher supplement John Robertson , McCoist and Gordon Durie . |
| 8 | The exhibition attracted 217 people in the first week . |
| 9 | World No1 Hendry held too many aces for the second-season professional , who scored 51 points in the first frame , eight in the third and none in the other three . |
| 10 | The Welshman dropped four shots in the first four holes , and was relieved to finish only three-over-par . |
| 11 | Gorman is based in Letterkenny and played 20 times for the first team last season scoring three goals . |
| 12 | He was appointed CBE in 1951 , the year in which he began twelve years as the first president of the SSI . |
| 13 | In an enthralling match in which Bailey served nine aces in the first set and with a tie-break in the final set , the match was poised for either player to win . |
| 14 | The private group , which insures invoices and financing arrangements , recorded 1,220 falures in the first half of this year , but indications so far show that at least 2,000 more failures will be recorded by the end of the year . |
| 15 | Blandine de Bayser , who sold nine drawings on the first night , had a delicate portrait of a woman attributed to the 17th century painter Franois Quesnel at £10,000 , and a fine Tiepolo of the Holy family from the Orloff collection at £90,000 . |
| 16 | They averaged 3.6 HAPCs during the first 60 minutes after the meal ( range 1–12 ) . |
| 17 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 18 | INVESTORS took their cue yesterday from the generally dubious reaction of the media to the Budget and the FT-SE 100-Share Index fell 36 points in the first 15 minutes of trading before staging a partial rally to close 29.4 lower on the day at 2,889.9 , 100 points below its all-time high two weeks ago . |
| 19 | In the debate on the cocaine threat , the Italian Interior Minister , Antonio Gava , reported that European seizures of the drug reached 4,000 kg in the first quarter of 1990 , compared to a record 6,300 kg during 1989 . |
| 20 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 21 | In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42 . |
| 22 | RJ Mitchell died fifteen months after the first flight of the Spitfire . |
| 23 | In.the general election Labour won 79 seats for the first time ; it carried 10 out of 13 seats in Birmingham , 9 out of 10 in Manchester and 48 out of 62 in London . |
| 24 | She put one foot on the first step . |
| 25 | Dennis said at his corner shop in Brandon , Suffolk , yesterday : ‘ I decided to stock milk for customers and bought 20 pints on the first day . |
| 26 | Veteran Japanese player , Isao Aoki , originally penalised two strokes after the first round for grounding his club in a bunker , disqualified himself from the tournament before the second round . |
| 27 | Oxford wasted two penalties in the first 25 minutes against London at Paddington Rec but still prevailed 2-1 . |
| 28 | Oxford wasted two penalties in the first 25 minutes against London at Paddington Rec , but still prevailed 2-1 . |
| 29 | He said 600,000 tickets for the first two rounds of the 24-nation tournament had already been sold . |
| 30 | He inoculated 923 people in the first twenty weeks of 1765 and by late September had three inoculation houses at Ingatestone for different classes of patients paying six , four , or three guineas . |