Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 2 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 3 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 4 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 5 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 6 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 7 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 8 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 9 | Jezrael let go and dodged weakly beneath the first one . |
| 10 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |
| 11 | Creggan did not like this and flew back to the first tree . |
| 12 | The woman clung to Julia 's hand and broke down for the first time , weeping and pouring out a torrent of Italian that Julia was incapable of translating for herself . |
| 13 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 14 | Then I saw an advert for a new consciousness-raising group in Spare Rib , and went along to the first meeting . |
| 15 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 16 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 17 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 18 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
| 19 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 20 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 21 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 22 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 23 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |