Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 All went well until the patrol reached the area of the Trig al Ab , the old camel track leading into the desert from the coast road where L Detachment had made their rendezvous after the first operation .
2 all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P .
3 Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries .
4 At the time she was lodging with two ladies who had lost their brother in the First World War .
5 The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month .
6 They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging .
7 Dietary iron intake was measured by a prospective seven day diary record of weighed and estimated food intake in patients who had not changed their diet before the first attendence or were not admitted for investigations to be performed .
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