Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most confused man in the Yorkshire Dales during the first frantic days after the first transmission was the Baldersdale postman . |
| 2 | There was also a major upset in Ballymena , where the DUP lost control of the council to the Ulster Unionists for the first time in 15 years . |
| 3 | Danny Webster came out of retirement to join the Farnborough locals in the first comp there . |
| 4 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 5 | RVS was a master printer and an amateur pianist , the latter facility enabling him to help out a friend who was touring the Glasgow districts before the First World War with a projector and a bag full of short silent films . |
| 6 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |