Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
2 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
5 | He also helped them become the first team since Lotus and BRM in 1963 to score points in every race of the year . |
6 | Well d' ya remember the first party we had ? |