Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the first [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife .
2 At its December meeting the SCOTVEC Board approved the first SVQ : The Preliminary Certificate in Agriculture , which comprised a group of National Certificate Modules .
3 The seventy-ninth Fighter Squadron sent the first F-one-eleven jets into combat in the Gulf .
4 During his time with the company started the first CPM 7000 interswitch press in the country and Preston workmates were not sure whether it was a splash of fat or a tear on 's cheek when it had to be replaced by the new Palladin 1600 .
5 There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) .
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