Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war . |
| 2 | The managing director of the bank that had advanced the first £20,000 was willing , the board , influenced by Niki 's grandfather , was n't . |
| 3 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 4 | Coleridge had worked intensely , under Southey 's close scrutiny , to prepare the lectures , and had written the first at a single sitting between midnight and breakfast-time on the day it was delivered . |
| 5 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 6 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 7 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |