Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb infin] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 2 | So we 've got , I did have the first names somewhere . |
| 3 | and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really |
| 4 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 5 | However , it did mark the first major overhaul of the Treaties of Rome , it reformed EC institutions to some extent and it succeeded in keeping the members united . |