Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to their first " in BNC.

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1 CHAMPIONS and section one league leaders Waringstown are in danger of going down to their first defeat of the season .
2 His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 .
3 His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 .
4 BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday .
5 Norwich City0 Sunderland1 THE John Byrne and Malcolm Crosby FA Cup roadshow has rolled all the way to Wembley after Sunderland overcame First Division opposition at Hillsborough yesterday to squeeze through to their first final in 19 years .
6 Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form .
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