Example sentences of "[vb past] to the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 2 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |
| 3 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 4 | There the Welsh and English school timetables differ , so that when a morning of Medau was started at the town hall , English-speaking mothers came to the first session and Welsh-speaking ones to the second ; she was therefore obliged to give the former in English and the latter in Welsh — surely a triumphant example of good public relations and adaptability — though Wynne claims that she is still having a struggle to master Welsh . |
| 5 | But when it came to the first anecdote the tale of her son 's embarrassing performance in a school Nativity play the old professional skills suddenly shone through . |
| 6 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 7 | It 's a pretty filthy day again today Mick , it 's er it 's raining , it 's windy , it 's cold , it 's the middle of November , it 's gon na cost er the supporters a bit to come tonight , er only two and half thousand came to the first game , how anxious are you that County 's supporters come out in their numbers this evening ? |
| 8 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 9 | On the appointed day , the first pageant wagon drove to the first station at Sowerby Bridge . |
| 10 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 11 | Outside a grand villa in the same city , a priest in an assortment of ramshackle clothing stopped his mule in the gateway , descended by lifting a leg and bellowed to the first person he met , which was Tobie . |
| 12 | She returned to the first column . |
| 13 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 14 | They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century . |
| 15 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 16 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 17 | But that was the word Morse repeated to the first question Lewis put to him about Lucy 's progress at 8.30 a.m. on the Tuesday . |
| 18 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 19 | In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 21 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 22 | ‘ By 1976 , the Government decided it had to act and that led to the first TV campaign with the line ‘ Do n't take your car for a drink ’ . ’ |
| 23 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 24 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 25 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 26 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 27 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 28 | In his Objections , appended to the first edition of Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , Hobbes rejects this . |
| 29 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 30 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |