Example sentences of "[vb past] the first [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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1 | PETER RADFORD , leader of a ‘ gang of four , ’ yesterday fired the first shots in a power struggle for control of British athletics . |
2 | Air temperature was 15 ° C at 8.00 pm , just before complete darkness , when I heard the first voices in an extensively flooded field . |
3 | Last month , I presented the first Investors in People awards . |
4 | Ronald Magill , who later became known to millions of television viewers as Amos Brearly in Emmerdale , was then an actor at the Nottingham Playhouse , as well as its associate director , and spoke the first words in the new theatre . |
5 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |