Example sentences of "did [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 2 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
| 3 | Forming a club enables them to enter competitions together , and this they did for the first time recently at the combined Hampshire and Berkshire county championships , held at Reading gaol . |
| 4 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 5 | Firms can easily dissipate their first-mover advantages , as Henry Ford did after the first world war by sacking many of his best senior managers . |
| 6 | Once the report is ready for distribution I hope Planning and Co-ordination will be able to give us some assistance as you did with the first plan . |
| 7 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 8 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 9 | So the first two or three hundred we did in the first year have now been resold twice . |
| 10 | It is thus possible , indeed common , for each of two rival lineages to claim , as the British and Germans did in the First World War , that ‘ God is on our side ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 12 | ‘ My coach , Malcolm Arnold , told me that you do n't win gold medals performing like I did in the first round . |
| 13 | The pupils were too depressed to bother sneaking into each other 's rooms for a chat as they usually did on the first night back at school . |
| 14 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 15 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |