Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
| 2 | When this came it represented the first archaeological exploration ever conducted , a landmark in man 's self-consciousness . |
| 3 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |
| 4 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 5 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 6 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 7 | England winger Andy Sinton bagged a glorious hat-trick but goalkeeper Neville Southall 's deliberate handball after 19 minutes saw him receive the first red card . |
| 8 | After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations . |
| 9 | What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished . |
| 10 | They go up to Did you do the first part of it ? |
| 11 | I , did you , did you remember the first ruddy time I ever went with you ? |
| 12 | Did she find the first reward insufficient and return again and again for more bites at this financially rewarding cherry ? |
| 13 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |