Example sentences of "they [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 61 | The significance of the Societies survived their failure ; they represented the first attempt to interest public opinion in the reform of the traditional structure of Spanish society . |
| 62 | When they reached the first sight of the city , it is recorded , Jesus wept , exclaiming : ‘ O , Jerusalem , Jerusalem , how often would I have gathered thy children , as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings , and ye would not . ’ |
| 63 | They climbed until they reached the first pocket of snow , which lay in a long , dark slash on the mountain 's side . |
| 64 | When they reached the first floor , he opened one of the doors and she walked into a large bedroom with a huge bed , masses of cupboard space , a comfortable armchair , and a table and chairs set by the window . |
| 65 | and it used to be Christmas Islands where , where literally they , they did the first |
| 66 | Though not consistent among themselves , they date the first , less conclusive campaign in 818 or 819 , the second , more decisive one which , they say , resulted in Konya 's being taken and plundered , in 819 , 820 or 821 ; and the statements in the earliest extant list , itself dated 824/1421 , lead to dates of 818 and 820 for the two campaigns . |
| 67 | As more people come to watch , they force the first watchers toward the centre . |
| 68 | ‘ They defused the first two and had three attempts at the third , but on the third attempt it blew up killing a major and his assistant lost his right arm when a hatch-door blew off . ’ |
| 69 | Both hardened internationals , they could n't cope with John Fashanu and Robbie Earle as they plundered the first and third goals for Dons . |
| 70 | To judge from Timothy Day 's useful Discography of Tudor church music ( London , 1989 ) , they mark the first serious attempt to capture on record a representative sample of Byrd 's music . |
| 71 | They reject the first group for being too sensationalist , for being concerned only with ‘ blood , gore and thrills ’ . |
| 72 | Yet they reject the first and welcome the second . |
| 73 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 74 | Managed by former Test captain Jackie McGlew , they play the first of seven matches on tour today . |
| 75 | Organizations do not search for the best mushroom on the prairie if they have an hour in which to find it ; they choose the first mushroom which satisfies their aspiration level . |
| 76 | BALLYNAHINCH 'S pack dominated the opening exchanges and made their intentions known when they won the first scrum against the head . |
| 77 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 78 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |
| 79 | Then they had the first ‘ aided ’ flights — that was what they called them then ; the first skips ; some of the disasters , the ships that disappeared . |
| 80 | ‘ Well , they had the first one , of course but — ’ he shrugged ‘ — time slips by , you know , and I think they 're a bit overdue for the next one . ’ |
| 81 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 82 | They ran the first thousand words with me meandering on about going to meet Boy George as a cover feature . |
| 83 | Born of Dilga , the Earth Mother , they fashioned the first genitals from the magic fungus for the hitherto sexless and infertile humans who had aimlessly wandered the earth . |
| 84 | Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz . |
| 85 | The aim was to help climbers Dave Harries and Mick Hardwick acclimatise before they attempted the first British ascent of the Polish Route on Annapurna I. |
| 86 | At the time of writing I have not been able to hear any of the discs , but they include the first integral recording of the ten Mahler Symphonies complete sets of Brahms , Beethoven and Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Gershwin and Copland , plus concertos with Serkin , Stern and Francescatti . |
| 87 | They represent the first legal moves against an estimated 400,000 people who , by accident or design , have made no contribution towards the poll tax , introduced last April north of the border . |
| 88 | Macrophages are crucial cells in the immune and inflammatory events ongoing in the intestinal musoca ; being scattered just beneath the epithelium , they represent the first line of defence . |
| 89 | Nevertheless , they represent the first steps toward a more analytic mode of thought . |
| 90 | But back Northampton went and though they held the first Nottingham surge they could not stop the second and scrum-half Hughes dived over on the left to score a try which earned a standing ovation . |