Example sentences of "could [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 2 | Deprived of the usual dash of digital and chemical additives , it could become the first easy-listening album for the post-E , no power generation . |
| 3 | Two men who helped George Blake , a Soviet spy , to escape from prison in 1966 could become the first British authors in recent history to have royalties seized by the courts . |
| 4 | Sir : Just before John Paul II was elected there was speculation that Cardinal Hume could become the first non-Italian Pope for several centuries . |
| 5 | A footprint in a muddy field could provide the first real lead for police hunting the man who 's become known as the horse ripper . |
| 6 | I could visualize the first restless stirring among tribes on the steppes of Central Asia , then the terrifying eruption of hordes of unknown people : lurching , creaking wagons , unkempt women and children , squat , slit-eyed men in padded garments , innumerable horses , felt tents , troops of mounted archers forever on the move . |