Example sentences of "they had [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 2 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 3 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 4 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 5 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 6 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 7 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 8 | They had started the first course without her . |