Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 2 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 3 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 4 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 5 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 6 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 7 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
| 9 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 10 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 12 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 13 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 14 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 15 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 16 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 17 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 18 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 19 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 20 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 21 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 22 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 23 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 24 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 25 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 26 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 27 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 28 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 29 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 30 | The Rona sheep had won the first round . |