Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun] in the first " in BNC.

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1 CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy .
2 And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million .
3 The interviews identified a variety of entries into heroin use , based , first , on the relationship between the initiate and the person who introduced him or her to the drug , that is , the social ‘ how ? ’ ; and , secondly , on the reasons given by the users themselves as to why they took heroin in the first place , that is , the personal ‘ why ? ’ .
4 They fell 15% in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity .
5 They fell 15pc in the first three months of the year compared with the same period of 1992 , according to figures from credit insurer Trade Indemnity .
6 Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the
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