Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 2 | Eventually we reached the Aru Islands , close to the shores of west New Guinea , where we managed to record the first ever colour footage of the golden-tailed bird in its natural habitat . |
| 3 | and yeah we did forget the first paragraph of the of what we had learned so we just covered what we 'd done really |
| 4 | By the time we had dressed the first grey light of the day had appeared at the window . |
| 5 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 6 | However , by the time we had spotted the first speck through our high-powered binoculars , the vulture was already descending . |