Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 2 | ‘ So I did the first album , ‘ Never Look Back ’ , and it did really well . |
| 3 | Once I found the first publisher , it just snowballed . ’ |
| 4 | She could not remember any more words , so she said the first words again , quietly but very clearly . |
| 5 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 6 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
| 7 | if she had the first sign of anything . |
| 8 | Okay if you said the first one was saw , |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 'm not , and if you knew the first damn thing about Accident and Emergency you would know I was n't ! ’ she snapped . |
| 10 | ‘ If you knew the first thing about Accident and Emergency — ’ Oh , Lord , let me be dreaming … |
| 11 | Do n't worry if you missed the first one last week , just make sure you get next week 's issue — it will have another voucher inside , but that will be the last one . |
| 12 | until we got the first order . |
| 13 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
| 14 | They climbed until they reached the first pocket of snow , which lay in a long , dark slash on the mountain 's side . |
| 15 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 16 | PP : You may be quite right about that , because something intensified the first night nerves , not only because of the artificiality of the occasion . |
| 17 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
| 18 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 19 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
| 20 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 21 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 22 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |
| 23 | The needle slipped into his blue-veined arm and he closed his eyes while he felt the first rush . |
| 24 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 25 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |
| 26 | But since he knew the first three elements of this expression before he observed his local price , it follows that the observation of his local price amounts to an observation of . |
| 27 | … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue . |
| 28 | However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint . |
| 29 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 30 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |