Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
2 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
3 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
4 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
5 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
6 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
7 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
8 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
9 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
10 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
11 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
12 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
13 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
14 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
15 | they posed for the first photographs |
16 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
17 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
18 | They showed in the first half why they were the bookies ’ favourites , ’ he said . |
19 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
20 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
21 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
22 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
23 | A vanishing ! ’ they exclaimed , hearing the nacarena 's voice pour through the pulled blinds from the house marked with black crosses and hung with newly dyed banners of death ; women 's voices , giving birth to the eternal soul , were louder than the priest 's obsequies , the relatives ' rosaries , and the lullabies they sang after the first birth , the entry into the mortal transit . |
24 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
25 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
26 | They went in the first ambulance with the man with the facial injuries . |
27 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
28 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
29 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
30 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |