Example sentences of "took the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was soon to be finally and completely demolished , I took the first opportunity of looking round and about the old shed to see if I could find something , anything , of interest relating to the depot to add to my growing collection of ‘ Railwayana ’ . |
| 2 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 3 | Dönitz adjusted his glasses , took the first sheet of paper from the file , opened his mouth and bawled at the microphone as though it was the furthest sailor on the longest parade ground in the Third Reich . |
| 4 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 5 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 6 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |