Example sentences of "[vb past] from the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Graham led from the first lap to the 97th at Monaco , and then ran out of oil . |
| 2 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 3 | Project number 1 on the first list , which derived from the first reconnaissance , was to ‘ Develop a worldwide communications system ’ For various reasons the project was not taken forward but Save The Children have continued to take the view that good communications , within the Field and between Field and HQ , is of the highest priority . |
| 4 | By 1990 , only Sir Geoffrey Howe survived from the first cabinet . |
| 5 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 6 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 7 | Greavesey of course and at the risk of overdosing on goals you can see all the action that mattered from the First Division yesterday . |
| 8 | Resentful souls on Earth , tethered there by obligation or obstinacy , muttered that Capella knew from the first what would be found on Mars and why . |
| 9 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 10 | The words had rushed out , but they were vibrant with feeling and certainty as she said , ‘ I , too , knew from the first . |
| 11 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 12 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 13 | It emerged from the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries in the USA in 1971 , and became a working reality as Project LOEX in 1972 . |
| 14 | The British labour movement , the Labour Party and the trade unions , emerged from the First World War greatly strengthened . |
| 15 | In Germany striker Bruno Labbadia scored twice as leaders Bayern Munich emerged from the first division 's two-month winter break with a workmanlike 2-0 victory over struggling Bayer Uerdingen on Saturday . |
| 16 | The uppers , made of one piece calf leather with leather bellows , well padded tongue and collar , provided the comfort I remembered from the first day . |
| 17 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 18 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 19 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 20 | He sipped from the first glass . |
| 21 | Increasing pressure on the Poles to Germanise themselves , and the corresponding Polish reaction in both compliance and defiance , were all part of the impact of capitalist industrial organisation as it spread from the first comers of Western Europe , to the second rank of industrialising nations — to Germany , Japan and Italy in particular — and through them to their potential empires and marcher territories . |