Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 3 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 4 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 5 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 11 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 12 | they posed for the first photographs |
| 13 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 14 | An and you take the surnames and they react to the first surname , I get race stories er calls occasionally |
| 15 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 16 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 17 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 18 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 19 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 20 | They showed in the first half why they were the bookies ’ favourites , ’ he said . |
| 21 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 22 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 23 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
| 24 | Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Children can start to earn stickers for the chart every time they comply with the first request . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice to which this section applies and issue that revised code ; and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply ( with appropriate modifications ) to such a revised code as they apply to the first issue of a code . |
| 30 | 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 . |