Example sentences of "the [adj] to arrive [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen Mother was one of the first to arrive on the scene . |
| 2 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 3 | The desire to establish that one was the first to arrive with the finding , and the priority disputes which are part of the scientific game , are testimony to the point . |
| 4 | I delivered Eliot to Magdalen , and was one of the first to arrive for the English Club meeting , accompanied by a Somerville girl to whom I had become attached . |
| 5 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 6 | The court heard that Mr Hale 's crew was one of the first to arrive at the underground station after the fire broke out . |
| 7 | Male cotton leafworm moths fare better , because the first to arrive at the female releases a scent which acts as a jamming signal on its competitors . |
| 8 | Loretta was the first to arrive at the restaurant . |
| 9 | She was the last to arrive at the party . |