Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further those who managed to survive the first university term did reasonably well but did not excel . |
| 2 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 3 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 4 | This thwe-thauk , or blood drinking , sealed eternal comradeship and they all assumed titles signifying their compact : Aung San became Bo Teza ( Fire General ) , Thakin Shu Maung , a former postal employee , became Bo Ne Win ( Sun of Glory General ) , Hla Pe , who had assisted the first escape , was Bo Let Ya ( Right Hand General ) , while Aung San 's first fellow-traveller , Hla Myaing , was Bo Yan Aung . |
| 5 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 6 | This extended a nice Martian strain in the script , examining how Hampstead life might look to a spectator who had missed the first two acts . |
| 7 | England made a decent 217 , with 68 from Boycott and 59 from Gower ; but after Greenidge and Haynes had got half-way to the target , Richards , who had missed the first match , played as only he can . |
| 8 | The second final place was contested between Alex A — who had played the first round a player short — and Mason 's packing house . |
| 9 | It contained representatives of more than 20 political parties who had contested the first free multiparty elections in Romania since 1937 [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 10 | AN MP last night called for a Government review of the jury system in Northern Ireland after an inquest failed to decide who had fired the first shots in a gun battle in which three Irish Republican Army men died . |
| 11 | The energetic soldiers who had survived the first war were in active command , but there was a great residue of staff officers from the first war who did not fight , who determined the spirit of the administration . |
| 12 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 13 | Martin Norris and ‘ Mack ’ Edwards replied for West Meon who had to play the first 40 minutes with only ten men . |
| 14 | Among the Triangle Project 's guests was Lady Sainsbury , who had opened the first phase of Triangle — the day care centre for the elderly — Mr. Portman , representing the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers , who had donated £32,000 in the project through the Robert Geffery Trust and Alton Town Mayor , Mrs. Jacqueling Martin . |
| 15 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 16 | Denis Healey soon saw himself in the role of bridge-builder between the West German government ( which particularly feared any decline in the credibility of nuclear deterrence ) and McNamara who hoped to avoid the first — or at least the early — use of nuclear weapons . |