Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 2 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 3 | I think it is tough for BD because the midfield have their own way of playing which they 've had since the first season back , and Chapman knew where to be cos they built it round him . |
| 4 | In the deDombal study , all strictures were benign , but in 92% of patients ( 48 of 52 ) they had occurred within the first 20 years of disease ; the lack of malignancy among their strictures was therefore attributable to the fact that most of their patients had disease of short duration . |
| 5 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 6 | Over the whole period , the front on the Right Bank never shifted as much as 1 , OOO yards ; for the Germans , a bitter contrast to the five miles they had advanced in the first four days of the offensive . |
| 7 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |
| 8 | Once they had got over the first shock , neither Bridget nor Tracey seemed able to take her story entirely seriously . |
| 9 | THOUSANDS of Namibians stood in long queues , stretching nearly a mile in some cases , as they waited to vote on the first day of Namibia 's five-day pre-independence election yesterday . |
| 10 | Often parents bring their children with them when they come to visit for the first time . |
| 11 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |