Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 2 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 3 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 4 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 5 | At the same time we find the first attempts to develop certain overseas areas as specialist producers of such exports to the ‘ developed ’ world — indigo and jute in Bengal , tobacco in Colombia , coffee in Brazil and Venezuela , not to mention cotton in Egypt , etc . |
| 6 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
| 7 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
| 8 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |