Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft . |
| 2 | Stewart McGrane scored the first seven minutes after the break with the second not arriving until five minutes from the end , which says a lot for the Galashiels defence . |
| 3 | England hosted the first three World Cups in 1975 , 79 and 83 . |
| 4 | England hosted the first three World Cups in 1975 , 79 and 83 . |
| 5 | Standish examines the first two difficulties ; the third is not surprising given Neptune 's long orbital period , 165 years ( so that not even one orbit has been completed since it was discovered ) . |
| 6 | Cleaning baths , probe systems , submersible transducers , whistle reactors and tube reactors are described and illustrated by Mason , while Goodwin discusses the first two methods with details of other larger scale equipment . |
| 7 | Jim Makin , Bill Mellor , Michael Hardman and Graham Lees celebrate the first 10 years . |
| 8 | Placing great importance on this latter aspect Whitaker decided the first two scripts should be written by the same author , who would thus maintain an overall series continuity . |
| 9 | Lau took the first 21–18 , and Piercey the second 22–20 . |
| 10 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 11 | Verdross preferred the first three , but his analysis of the representation theory was rejected by the International Law Commission . |
| 12 | Capel Ablett and Fiery Fred opened the batting for W & V Capel missed the first three balls and played on to his stumps with the fourth ball . |
| 13 | Firbank spent the first ten years of his life at his family 's new home , The Coopers , Chislehurst — a village whose connections with the exiled Empress Eugénie may have influenced his enduring fascination with both royalty and Catholicism . |
| 14 | Pivoting in P2/T2 gives the first two rows of P2/T3 . |
| 15 | On a day that much expensive talent short-changed a dull derby scarred by offside , Strachan made the first two for Leeds and earned an ‘ assist ’ for the third . |
| 16 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 17 | Hodgson won the first two games but the retrieving ability and fitness of Wood proved decisive as he won 4–9 , 2–9 , 9–5 , 9–6 , 9–5 . |
| 18 | Les Ferdinand got the first 2 . |
| 19 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 20 | At Norwich , where they lost 2–0 , the Cobblers played the first thirty minutes without their skipper McCartney — he had missed his train . |
| 21 | Japan , Taiwan and the USA filled the first three places with other major investments coming from Hong Kong , Singapore and Australia . |
| 22 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 23 | Erm colours then er Alex do the first four colours on the left to see if you 've got the right one . |
| 24 | Later in December , three meetings were held in one day — those of the Bondholders ' , the Club 's first Annual General Meeting and the first committee meeting of the constitutionally elected members — Anker Simmons chairing the first two and Dr. J. Susman the third . |
| 25 | Biasion won the first three of the morning 's special stages but then lost valuable seconds when he spun and lies fourth overall , two minutes behind Fiorio . |