Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 2 | Then the first man stalked forward , blasting several more shots into the car ; the radiator disappeared in a cloud of steam , the bonnet was blown off , and the car suddenly lurched downwards and circled as half the wheel nearest Howard was blown away . |
| 3 | The first man lay there , moaning . |
| 4 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |
| 5 | The first hour proved fairly turbulent , as we skimmed under some cumulus build-ups . |
| 6 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 7 | The first hit came just before half-time . |
| 8 | More specifically , the accident resulting from the first incident had only taken place because of a concatenation of events leading to it which could not have been foreseen . |
| 9 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 10 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 11 | The first Twin swung briefly on a horizontal pole and jumped neatly aboard . |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't care about the book he was going to write , ’ the first voice snapped angrily . |
| 13 | Two of the three relegations from the First Division had already been determined , but the third relegation was still in contention . |
| 14 | The first conceptualization had then to be changed so that it could handle this happening . |
| 15 | He worked in both the English and Welsh parts of the county ; in 1755 he opened , at Woodstock , the first chapel built especially for a Welsh Methodist society . |
| 16 | The first computer dedicated solely to investigating climate change has begun operations at the Meteorological Office 's Hadley Centre at Bracknell . |
| 17 | Lewis was the first editor and the first issue appeared early in 1943 . |
| 18 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 19 | She let off a salvo of three guns , spaced so that the first ball fell well in front of the Genoese ship . |
| 20 | The first half produced only one real chance when City goalkeeper Tony Coton kept out Eric Cantona 's header in the 28th minute . |
| 21 | The first half had virtually passed Ferdinand by , but at least the £5 million-rated QPR striker got involved after the break although without much success . |
| 22 | The first response came directly from Mrs N. Sall , way up in Fort St John , B.B. , Canada . |
| 23 | The first comic designed specifically for children was Jack and Jill and was published by W. Long in March 1885 . |
| 24 | The first night passed quietly enough as the newcomers were thoroughly examined and were glad to get a roof over their heads . |
| 25 | She knew that if he wanted to he could have killed her ; without apparent effort he held off her attack once the first shock had past . |
| 26 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 27 | The external assessors would have responsibility for reporting their opinion of whether a board of directors had fulfilled for stewardship responsibilities outlined in the first proposal listed here . |
| 28 | A picture in TODAY revealed how the first truck ran straight over Adam 's Renault 25 , crushing the roof like a cardboard box . |
| 29 | Furthermore the company is claiming to have the market to itself and that Workbench is the first tool set specifically aimed at mainframe maintenance to run on personal computers . |
| 30 | The first pool attracted just 35 punters and the stakes amounted to £4–17s-6d … or £4.87 . |