Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 2 | I only had the first one to worry about . |
| 3 | I only watched the first 10mins of the FA cup game yesterday … funny how no mention was made of Pallisters hand ball in the box … or dick head schmeichal pushing Kamara in the face . |
| 4 | Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 . |
| 5 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 6 | I then had the first of the mad ideas that helped to save our lives . |
| 7 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 8 | To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . |
| 9 | This was why she initially opposed the first march from Coalisland to Dungannon , but the arguments of the Nationalists and the Republicans on direct action tactics had become dominant and she was outvoted . |
| 10 | Even now she vividly recalled the first time she saw Nader at the exclusive Royal Club , a dining , gambling and sports centre . |
| 11 | By doing so , we effectively answered the first part of the question of principle raised by the appeal , and decided that the court has the power in its inherent jurisdiction to override W. 's refusal to undergo the necessary treatment . |
| 12 | We eventually finished the first day 's walking . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 14 | We then created the first product which heart attacks , strokes , cancers and certain coronary artery disease , which I can see . |
| 15 | We just did what we were supposed to do really ha ha we actually read the first one of the quests together , so it was good you know , we decided what to do how to do it . |
| 16 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 17 | They also returned the first colour pictures from the surface , which show that the rocks are tinted brown . |
| 18 | Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups . |
| 19 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 20 | Pupils from our friendly neighbourhood school , St John 's , were invited along as passengers and they too became the first to use the bypass . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 22 | He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) . |
| 23 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 25 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 26 | Whenever there was a vacancy at his newspaper for a trainee reporter , he loyally gave the first opportunity to someone from the school . |
| 27 | ‘ He usually took the first surgery , so that Niall could be left free to attend crew briefings . ’ |
| 28 | It also became the first government since 1974 to serve a full four-year term ; a general election was due in October 1991 . |
| 29 | It also saw the first major electoral success for Labour : twenty-nine Labour and Lib-Lab members were returned . |
| 30 | It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation . |