Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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1 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
2 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
3 | The growth of the trust owed much to its first chairman , Sir Henry Dale ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
4 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
5 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
6 | The following year he won the 500 race at the North West at 88.71mph , and then went on to his first World Championship successes , in both the 350 and 500 classes , the first man ever to do so . |
7 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
8 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
9 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
10 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
11 | Miles thought back to his first season as a hunter . |
12 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |