Example sentences of "we [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 2 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 3 | Here we experienced the first of so many neighbourly gestures ; a huge peat fire was blazing in the livingroom , there were flowers and a jug of fresh milk on the table . |
| 4 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 5 | ‘ We got the first two ! |
| 6 | It was on one of Mike 's rest days , when I went along with Christophe to do some sound recordings , that we got the first view of what was to become an obsession for Mike and me over the next two and a half years . |
| 7 | Middle of the following week and we got the first reconciliation yesterday . |
| 8 | until we got the first order . |
| 9 | We reviewed the first 14 consecutive yellow cards reported to the Spanish drug surveillance system ; only four of the patients could be regarded as having Guillain-Barré syndrome . |
| 10 | We built the first working laser , the first high performance thermal imaging system for night-time vision , and the first long wavelength infrared sensor flown into space . |
| 11 | But , after a glorious day 's exploring , by the time we turned for home the weather had become very wild , and as we approached the first barrier , waves were breaking fiercely over the road . |
| 12 | Erm we approached the first project we were looking at the information we had available er , looking at the strength of the work a lot of information As you can see the er and , and looking at the er a definite lack of |
| 13 | Coun. Michael Carr , leader of the borough council , said : ‘ We have entered the second round of City Challenge with the same enthusiasm with which we approached the first , and I hope we enjoy the same success . |
| 14 | We stopped the first night at an inn on the banks of a river . |
| 15 | Moreover , if we adopted the first solution and applied it throughout , e would become ( the first three elements have been assumed zero ) unc which is clearly quite unacceptable for the later measurements . |
| 16 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 17 | It was the year in which we celebrated the first twenty-five years of a successful university . |
| 18 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 19 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 20 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 21 | We developed the first look-down shoot-down radar system , the first track-while-scan radar for a tactical aircraft , and the first radar system with multi-shot , air-to-air capability . |
| 22 | In 1938 we began the first School Broadcasts for the province , and I was in charge of production . |
| 23 | We birdied the first couple of holes and we were on top of the world . |
| 24 | Remember what he said when we called the first time ? |
| 25 | We watched the first recording , the questions were easy . |
| 26 | We started the first rough outline of a scenario . |
| 27 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 28 | Then we did a show 1935–55 in which we included the first Americans and quite a few British artists , since they were fairly late going into constructivism . |
| 29 | We reached the first tall tree , but it was the wrong one . |
| 30 | We knew the first violin would be able to play a bit — he was , after all , Leon Spierer , the concert-master of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra — but what of the rest ? |