Example sentences of "they [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 2 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 3 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 4 | They became the first club since the war to win the Cup and the League , and were the first to win the League on goal average . |
| 5 | When not busy whipping crowds to a frenzy ( but more of the Skin 2 Rubber Ball later ) , they became the first band to play the newly re-opened Stone Pony Club in Asbury Park , New Jersey where , of course , BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN first launched his career . |
| 6 | In his autobiography Nothing Venture Nothing Win Hillary describes the moment in 1953 when they became the first people ever to reach the top of Everest . |
| 7 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 8 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 9 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 10 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 11 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 12 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 13 | David had been right , thought Juliet excitedly , as they approached the first of a row of huge old houses . |
| 14 | He then decided he could make a better biplane than many that he daily worked upon and with his four brothers ( Tom , Mark , Bob and Ed ) , they built the first ‘ Gee Bee ’ . |
| 15 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
| 16 | They hired the first agent , ‘ Digs ’ , of Oxford Street , to manage as well as to let their flat . |
| 17 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 18 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 19 | They claimed the first Tardis , as used in the 1963 series starring William Hartnell , collapsed 16 years ago . |
| 20 | Oldham , who have now gone seven away games without a win , will rue the fact that they dominated the first half but failed to turn it to advantage . |
| 21 | They dominated the first quarter of the match with Raducanu plundering some tidy line-out ball . |
| 22 | They dominated the first half adding further tries through winger Gavin Thompson and Pears , who also landed two penalty goals . |
| 23 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |
| 24 | The students learned to work what were often open invitations rather than clearly defined topics or themes into coherent lesson plans for two or three lessons of which they taught the first . |
| 25 | They awarded the first prize for the block plan design to Crepinet , the second to William Hastings of Belfast and the third to Morgan and Phipson . |
| 26 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 27 | They had reached the top of the hill when they heard the first soul-chilling , baying call . |
| 28 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 29 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 30 | They spent the first ten minutes talking about Thomas Hardy , because Roger came from Dorset , and then Mr Baker read passages from the Kingman Report , which was still unpublished , and asked if Roger agreed . |