Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 2 | This awful and we 'd actually got the first window here which is which is . |
| 3 | THE South African government , the African National Congress and its rival , the Inkatha Freedom Party , agreed yesterday to hold the first multi-party talks since all-race democracy negotiations broke down last May . |
| 4 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 5 | The story of how ministers did so provides the first substantial evidence about how John Major 's government is functioning behind closed doors . |
| 6 | Hence the dress and hat which sent the photographers into ecstasy in Melbourne and generally created far more attention and comment than the match in which she had successfully defeated the first of her 1991 Grand Slam titles . |
| 7 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 8 | However , the majority of these had only finished the first level of secondary education — the fifth and sixth years following four years of primary school . |
| 9 | When the result was officially declared at a general committee meeting of the Birkenhead party last night , Mr Field had already won the first round of the ballot in the individual members section with 159 votes against his two challengers , Mr Paul Davies , a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , who secured 75 votes and Militant supporter , Ms Kathy Wilson , with 48 votes . |
| 10 | If , when you left the machine , you had already knitted the first row of the cycle , when you return you 'll knit two more of the same row , making a total of three . |
| 11 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 12 | Thereafter , Franco began to make a rhetorical distinction between the war against the United Kingdom and the United States , in which Spain took no part , and the war against the Soviet Union , which , in Franco 's view , was a new crusade against communism , of which Nationalist Spain had already fought the first battle during her Civil War . |
| 13 | The Australian team had just played the first ‘ Test ’ at Carisbrook , in which Crawford had done nothing to harm his reputation , taking 3 for 64 of 0 to 18 , as well as knocking up 53 in his only innings . |
| 14 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 15 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 16 | She had just stuck the first stamp on the envelope when a friendly voice behind her said : ‘ Can you manage all right , missy , or do you want a lift up ? ’ |
| 17 | He hardened his opposition to both , despite the fact that his own party chairman had once favoured the first , and vocal forces within his Scottish party were in support of the second . |
| 18 | Richter had also conducted the first performances of two Brahms symphonies . |
| 19 | If homosexuals had sartorially predicted the first Teds , then both they and these first teenagers inhabited the same psychic and social space . |
| 20 | Imminence : of course he saw it before the impulse had even taken the first step on its journey from her mind to her body . |
| 21 | Lord Francis had earlier made the first ascent of the Wellenkuppe , but dismissed the ridge linking to the Ober Gabelhorn as impracticable , a view held until the traverse was made in 1890 by L. Norman Neruda , a Swede , and guide Christian Klucker . |
| 22 | He was suffering from exhaustion and cold after helping co-climber Harry Taylor , who had earlier become the first Briton to reach the summit from the Nepalese side without oxygen equipment . |
| 23 | Brian Deane had earlier claimed the first of what he hopes will be many goals for Leeds . |
| 24 | The Block , built by J.J. Oakes & Son , was duly opened on Speech Day , 17th July 1957 , appropriately by Professor Williams , who had recently become the first recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts , " to individuals who have attained early distinction , with promise of future achievements , in the promotion of arts , manufacture , and commerce " . |
| 25 | It was reported on Feb. 5 that a Thai mining company had recently become the first foreign company to be awarded an offshore tin-prospecting concession in Myanma . |
| 26 | The big guns , with the horses and crews , had safely negotiated the first quarter of the kilometre 's distance across the icy marsh . |
| 27 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |