Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 2 | It says vendors took around eighteen months to bring out the first XPG3-branded products after its introduction . |
| 3 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 4 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 5 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 6 | ITV is involved in a race with the BBC to bring out the first film drama of his life . |
| 7 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |