Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 2 | Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football . |
| 3 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 4 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 5 | By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories . |
| 6 | Houston , Texas-based , Talus Corp and the Electronic & Computer Science Centre ( ESCS ) of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have released the first Russian programme for NeXt Inc 's NeXtStations . |