Example sentences of "they did [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily .
3 They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes .
4 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 .
5 The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first .
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