Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to [pron] 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 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 4 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 7 | And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union . |
| 8 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Miles thought back to his first season as a hunter . |
| 11 | 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 . |