Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " 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 | It was then that they disagreed for the first time about the terms of their verbal agreement and a serious rift developed between them . |
| 11 | They came for the first lot for nine months , then they went back . |
| 12 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 13 | They showed in the first half why they were the bookies ’ favourites , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 15 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 20 | They went in the first ambulance with the man with the facial injuries . |
| 21 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 22 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 23 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 24 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 25 | By the time they toured for the first time , in 1985 , they seemed silly — nothing dates as fast as an advertisement . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 27 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 28 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 29 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 30 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |