Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 2 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 3 | ‘ You came to me first ? ’ |
| 4 | Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas . |
| 5 | BANGOR 'S heroic team flew out of Cyprus today reflecting on how close they came to their first win in European competition . |
| 6 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 7 | At 8.30 am I drove to my first appointment in Balderton Street , planning to buy a hat at Miss Selfridge afterwards , en route to the filming . |
| 8 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
| 9 | I remember once talking with a woman who replied to my first question , ‘ No , I find it hard to believe . ’ |
| 10 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 11 | I returned to my first and most potent objection . |
| 12 | It was Barney who returned to it first , dribbling cream into his coffee and watching it swirl into a spiral on the surface . |
| 13 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 14 | His normal hygiene practices were established by the nurse who talked to him first and he was encouraged to continue with these . |
| 15 | Girding its loins for a deeper plunge into the commercial market , Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced a strategic relationship with Lotus Development Corp that will see Lotus Notes , cc:Mail , Ami Pro and Freelance Graphics ported to its first native Unix platform , HP/UX . |
| 16 | It led to their first quarrel . |
| 17 | But it also led to her first public performance . |
| 18 | While working as a record plugger for EMI he met lots of chart artists which led to his first stage appearances . |
| 19 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 20 | Unless the Grand Army got to him first . |
| 21 | I went to him first . |
| 22 | I went to you first because you have known him who is from the beginning . |
| 23 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
| 25 | I went to my first gay pub . |
| 26 | I was only a little girl when I went to my first funeral . |
| 27 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |
| 28 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 29 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 30 | I warmed to it first of all because , like the Eggle New York elsewhere in this issue , it obviously is n't trying to be anything else ; it can stand on its own merits without any need for the usual identikit comparisons . |