Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 2 | So I missed the first two minutes of Jazz Record Requests on Radio 3 . ’ |
| 3 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 4 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 5 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 6 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 7 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 8 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 9 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 10 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 12 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 13 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 14 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 15 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 16 | An outstanding sportsman , in 1936 he became Irish universities ' heavyweight boxing champion and two years later he received the first of six rugby international caps for Ireland , touring South Africa in 1938 with the British Lions . |
| 17 | Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country . |
| 18 | Here we experienced the first of so many neighbourly gestures ; a huge peat fire was blazing in the livingroom , there were flowers and a jug of fresh milk on the table . |
| 19 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 20 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 21 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 22 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 23 | Then they had the first ‘ aided ’ flights — that was what they called them then ; the first skips ; some of the disasters , the ships that disappeared . |
| 24 | It did not please him ; almost he wished the first pledge back again , so naked did he feel now without his armour of obstinacy . |
| 25 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 26 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 27 | Instead she blurted the first thing that came into her head . |
| 28 | Either he took the first plane to Dublin , or he rejected them out of hand . |
| 29 | Sure enough , not long afterwards she heard the first faint sounds of pursuit . |