Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 2 | I 've done the first bit for you . |
| 3 | cos if you 've missed the first couple of weeks ' worth or so erm |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got the first demand from the schoolteacher , boss . |
| 5 | I 've had the first signs of her asking where I go , what I do . |
| 6 | He says thousands of families have already been thrown into chaos and we 've had the first suicide as a result of the operations of the Child Support Agency . |
| 7 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 8 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 9 | Ebmeier et al ( 1988 ) have given the first account of the setting up and running of a Timbury type unit serving a local area in Inverurie . |
| 10 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 11 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 12 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 13 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 14 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 15 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 16 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
| 17 | In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field . |
| 18 | And house prices have shown the first rise since June . |
| 19 | If the trainees have come to this point successfully they have mastered the first objective of Goal 1 ; they now have good problem definition skills . |
| 20 | United have become the first team in the League to break with tradition by getting rid of fixed term contracts for their coaching staff . |
| 21 | ESSEX police have become the first force in the country to run a Mazda as a police car . |
| 22 | LOUGHBOROUGH have become the first holders of the East Midlands Region Branch of the Year trophy . |
| 23 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 24 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 25 | Since the club 's formation in the 1930s we have reached the first round on no less than 42 occasions . |
| 26 | Researchers in Oxford have found the first evidence of a genetic cause for unexplained mental retardation in children . |
| 27 | The Californian authorities have announced the first form of public transport to be powered by alternative energy sources . |
| 28 | On their first Christmas Day without mum , Princes William and Harry proved that they have learned the first lesson of royal duty . |
| 29 | ‘ A lot of us have passed the first part of our exam , and are working on the second . |
| 30 | Much work remains to be done , but we have achieved the first stage in gaining agreement to our approach in ensuring Hampshire 's future services . ’ |