Example sentences of "only [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that campaign , which he ended with a score of 221 , he also rode the fastest 100 by a jump jockey , smashed Jonjo O'Neill 's record seasonal total of 149 , and not only became the first man to ride 200 winners over jumps , but the first to do so under either code since Sir Gordon Richards did so on the Flat in 1952 . |
| 2 | Yeah , that 's true up to a point , but you 've got ta remember though that that only affects the first half , or first bit of season . |
| 3 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 4 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 5 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's very early days — we only saw the first draft last month and it could be three years before it is implemented . |
| 7 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 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 | Unfortunately life is not so simple , you have only passed the first hurdle . |
| 10 | But , as Taylor shows , in the value-adding spectrum , they only comprise the first stage of a four-stage process . |