Example sentences of "[pers pn] took the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 2 | On the first note of the following eight-bar break I took the first step , missed the second and somersaulted down the rest , orchestrated by drum rolls and cymbal crashes as the rest of the band dissolved into discord . |
| 3 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 4 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 5 | She took the first train home . |
| 6 | She took the first set 6-4 but a sideways stretch to make contact with an English passing shot had the Belfast girl in trouble . |
| 7 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 8 | A Miss , that 's right , she took the first class . |
| 9 | They took the first turning after the hotel and began to climb towards the Jenner Clinic . |
| 10 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 11 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 12 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |
| 13 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 14 | He took the first job he could find , washing dishes at the Wang Garden , a Chinese restaurant two blocks down the street from the hotel . |