Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 2 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 3 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 4 | Between two and four million people visited each of the first three festivals , and the sites were dramatically improved — often at relatively limited net cost . |
| 5 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 6 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 7 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 8 | But Harris , who made 47 in the first innings and Puddle who promoted himself in the batting order had other ideas . |
| 9 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 10 | Alvaro Arzú was the former mayor of Guatemala City and co-founder with Alvaro Heredia ( the acting mayor ) of the right-wing National Advancement Party ( PAN ) , as whose candidate he came fourth in the first round of the election . |
| 11 | ‘ Needless to say , there were plenty of takers when I offered a small wager — but a few worried expressions when I scored five in the first seven games ! |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 13 | Hannon saddled three of the first four home in the Kennett Maiden , and Reprehend , at 14–1 , was the least fancied of his trio . |
| 14 | OPENER Roshan Mahanama scored a masterful 109 as Sri Lanka made 303-6 on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand in Colombo . |
| 15 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 16 | She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country , and ran a working men 's club . |
| 17 | France dominated most of the first half but the home side , one of South Africa 's weaker provinces , came back after trailing 15–3 at half-time to threaten an upset . |
| 18 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 19 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 20 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | Driving a Mitsubishi with friend Silka Fritzinger , She finished 27th after the first day . |
| 22 | BY a margin of two minutes 40 seconds the Soviet yacht Fazisi , with co-skippers Alexei Gryshenko and the American Skip Novak , finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World Race to Punta del Este , Uruguay . |
| 23 | Gryshenko , co-skipper of the yacht Fazisi , which finished sixth in the first leg of the Whitbread Round the World race , left a note to his wife and parents . |
| 24 | Tokyo touched 26000 for the first time since last August . |
| 25 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 26 | Burnell toiled to a 75 , while Hutt , who birdied two of the first three holes after lunch , then took seven at the 4th , including two penalty strokes from grounding his club in a water hazard . |
| 27 | He collected four of the first five wickets and , on the day , had figures of 11–7–8–4 . |
| 28 | Though Park spent most of the first half pinned in their own territory , Nottingham had only two penalty goals and a Gregory dropped goal to show for their efforts . |
| 29 | ‘ As a matter of fact , Scott spent most of the first course warning me against you . |
| 30 | Larne spent most of the first half on the rack , but took a shock lead three minutes from the break when Tom McCourt grabbed his 22nd goal of the season . |