Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 2 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 3 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 4 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 5 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 6 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 7 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 8 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 9 | They had started the first course without her . |
| 10 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 11 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 12 | On their first Christmas Day without mum , Princes William and Harry proved that they have learned the first lesson of royal duty . |
| 13 | If the trainees have come to this point successfully they have mastered the first objective of Goal 1 ; they now have good problem definition skills . |