Example sentences of "they [vb past] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 2 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 3 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 4 | Near the end of 1982 they achieved the first interesting number of eight fusions per muon , where the energy released exceeds the rest energy of a muon . |
| 5 | And that 's what they called the first automatic washer . |
| 6 | The aim was to help climbers Dave Harries and Mick Hardwick acclimatise before they attempted the first British ascent of the Polish Route on Annapurna I. |