Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] the first " in BNC.

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1 A twenty-one-year-old mother living alone with her child on a Sunderland estate became pregnant the first she " had sexual intercourse " .
2 I realised this the first time I saw her dressed up to go out — excited , nervous and yet so alive .
3 ‘ Anyway , when I found out how well-known he was , I made sure the first spot was very organised .
4 In fact he spent all the first winter of the war pontooning , and then was driving lorries on bomb disposal .
5 He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box .
6 One sherpa , Tensing Norgay , accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary and became one the first men to climb Mount Everest .
7 went wrong the first time do you ?
8 I understood this the first time I read him , he wrote , in that smelly room in Hackney .
9 Usko thought this the first systematic collation of these languages .
10 She concentrated on Durance instead and said : ‘ You saw this the first time on the Jonquil , did n't you ?
11 He placed the sketch-pad on his knees , flicked open the first page and began to draw .
12 After shooting the woman from the council house and her baby , and his mother , Larry had walked into Bishops Linctus and shot dead the first three people he met , wounding several others .
13 Kate Miskin pushed open the first door on the left and stood aside for Dalgliesh and Massingham to enter .
14 On the landing he pushed open the first bedroom door , and there in front of him was Sarah Ryan .
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