Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |
| 2 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 3 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
| 4 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
| 5 | Their presence provoked the first violent incidents , when on Oct. 31 some 3,000 People 's Front volunteers seized two checkpoints on the USSR-Romania border and threatened to kill the border guards and their families if the troops were not withdrawn . |
| 6 | The journals in which researchers published the first paper relating to their research are shown in the following ranked table . |
| 7 | In 1961 , which driver won the first grand prix he entered ? |
| 8 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 9 | In 1933 he starred with Wallace Beery in The Bowery , which included a fight scene on a barge in which Beery landed the first blow . |
| 10 | Which ground staged the first Test in this country ? ( 6 ) 3 . |
| 11 | Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies . |
| 12 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 13 | Which minister opened the first Labour exchange ? |
| 14 | Her mother answered the first call on February 2 when Cardwell gave the name Tara and asked Tricia to call her back . |
| 15 | His announcement constituted the first fundamental change of US policy on Indo-China since the US retreat from the region in 1975 . |
| 16 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 17 | His father struck the first chord and Davide began , |
| 18 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |
| 19 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |
| 20 | In 386 , Priscillian and at least five of his disciples became the first heretics to be executed . |