Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 2 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 3 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 4 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 5 | For , after less than 20 wickets in four lean years with Derbyshire , Taylor was part of the Staffordshire team that came to Northampton in the first round of the 1990 NatWest Cup to be plundered by Allan Lamb and company for the record total of 360-2 . |
| 6 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 7 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 8 | Former President Goukouni Oueddei returned to Chad for the first time in nine years on May 18-19 , meeting with President Idriss Déby and reportedly discussing the proposals for a multiparty system due to be introduced in January 1992 . |
| 9 | It is probable , then , that she returned to Brackley during the first six months of 1745 . |
| 10 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 11 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 12 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the reason we went to LA in the first place , to be perfectly honest . |
| 14 | Tonight he 'll recite extracts from the work of American writers who went to Paris after the first world war . |
| 15 | When I went to Asdas on the first day when he was telling me about erm sales , loads of people erm |
| 16 | On 24 August the Eliots travelled to Edinburgh for the first night and , once again , the reaction of the audience was favourable . |
| 17 | He 'll read extracts from the works of American writers who travelled to Paris after the first world war . |