Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I 'm not , and if you knew the first damn thing about Accident and Emergency you would know I was n't ! ’ she snapped . |
| 3 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 4 | But since he knew the first three elements of this expression before he observed his local price , it follows that the observation of his local price amounts to an observation of . |
| 5 | The aim was to help climbers Dave Harries and Mick Hardwick acclimatise before they attempted the first British ascent of the Polish Route on Annapurna I. |
| 6 | The world No3 launched his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 7 | World No3 White won 5-4 , launching his comeback with a break of 114 after he lost the first three frames . |
| 8 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 9 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 10 | Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games . |
| 11 | HER knees felt weak and butterflies flocked into her stomach as she felt the first hot flush of teenage love . |
| 12 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 13 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 14 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 15 | Chris Broad looked set for a good knock as he crashed the first four of the day … but Gloucestershire then got themselves into trouble against the bowling of Gordon Harris … |
| 16 | It appeared just as impregnable yesterday as he survived the first two sets without being broken . |