Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 2 | I only had the first one to worry about . |
| 3 | I only watched the first 10mins of the FA cup game yesterday … funny how no mention was made of Pallisters hand ball in the box … or dick head schmeichal pushing Kamara in the face . |
| 4 | Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 . |
| 5 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 6 | I then had the first of the mad ideas that helped to save our lives . |
| 7 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 8 | To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . |
| 9 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 10 | Microport Inc , Scotts Valley , California , which recently became the first non-hardware licensee of Unix System Laboratories Inc 's unannounced System V.4.2 ES/MP , has started shipping an ANSI C Compiler for Intel Corp 's Pentium processor from Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 11 | Microport Inc , Scotts Valley , California , which recently became the first non-hardware licensee of Unix System Lab 's unannounced SVR4.2 ES/MP , has started shipping an ANSI C Compiler for Intel Corp 's Pentium processor from Unix System Labs . |
| 12 | It was Switchboard volunteers who eventually organized the first London public conference on AIDS . |
| 13 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 14 | The fans had come for goals and it was Pompey who nearly supplied the first . |
| 15 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 16 | It was this second man who now asked the first , the last , question . |
| 17 | This was why she initially opposed the first march from Coalisland to Dungannon , but the arguments of the Nationalists and the Republicans on direct action tactics had become dominant and she was outvoted . |
| 18 | It is second time lucky for Gateshead , who almost staged the first of these championships last year . |
| 19 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 20 | Horton believes that Bull , who recently became the first Wolves player to score 200 goals , would be the ideal England partner for Alan Shearer . |
| 21 | By doing so , we effectively answered the first part of the question of principle raised by the appeal , and decided that the court has the power in its inherent jurisdiction to override W. 's refusal to undergo the necessary treatment . |
| 22 | We eventually finished the first day 's walking . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 24 | We then created the first product which heart attacks , strokes , cancers and certain coronary artery disease , which I can see . |
| 25 | We just did what we were supposed to do really ha ha we actually read the first one of the quests together , so it was good you know , we decided what to do how to do it . |
| 26 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 27 | They also returned the first colour pictures from the surface , which show that the rocks are tinted brown . |
| 28 | Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups . |
| 29 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 30 | Pupils from our friendly neighbourhood school , St John 's , were invited along as passengers and they too became the first to use the bypass . |