Example sentences of "went [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies .
2 When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met .
3 Sometimes that flash is near slit 1 and in that case we know that the electron actually went through the first slit .
4 I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray .
5 The original trophy that went with the first prize disappeared — it is thought at some time during the eighteenth century — and there was never enough money to replace it .
6 Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared .
7 So we went into the first preview , in front of an audience , with plenty of confidence .
8 HE left NME to create the equally successful Smash Hits and then decided to go it alone with £4,000 from his building society account — all of which went into the first edition of The Face .
9 They went in the first ambulance with the man with the facial injuries .
10 More than likely , you came out of the cinema wondering why you went in the first place .
11 Or was that where all the money went in the first place ?
12 ’ He must have known where the phetam went in the first stage , ’ Mala said .
13 When we went round the first corner at about 90kph Tony went very quiet .
14 Who went to the first home game in our promotion year ?
15 She says ; We went to the first Sands meeting .
16 Two gunmen went to the first floor and opened fire on two men in the salon , fatally injuring Mr Hughes .
17 And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’
18 I went to the first Reporting Area in good time .
19 When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated .
20 When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated .
21 I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class .
22 Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper .
23 I know when Brian went on the first Queen tour to America he hated it , so he had stabilisers made to give him 220v .
24 The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis .
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