Example sentences of "[noun] take the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 2 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
| 3 | Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ? |
| 4 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 5 | Villa away … the premier league team took the first leg 2-1 at the Manor … |
| 6 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 7 | In the final , Royston and Cawkell settled quickly and took full advantage of their five-point start to take the first game 15–5 . |
| 8 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 9 | In the match of the tournament , Drake took the first set 6–3 only to see his advantage melt away as Alger powered his way back into the reckoning with a blistering 6–1 win in the second . |
| 10 | But in these nursery nests , the kittens took the first nipple they came across , regardless of whether it was in a familiar position on the female 's belly , or even which belly it was . |
| 11 | The Government took the first step to outlawing the station by writing to the European Commission and to Red Hot Television , which broadcasts from Denmark , reporting the ban . |
| 12 | Fedorov took the first blow on the arm . |
| 13 | Bob took the first contact sheet from the developing fluid and hung it up . |
| 14 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 15 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 16 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 17 | The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . |
| 18 | The German totally overwhelmed America 's Michael Chang , 6-2 , 6-3 , 6-2 , in the final to take the first prize of $2m — but , more importantly for him , instil renewed self-confidence that the Wimbledon triumph was no fluke . |
| 19 | Perhaps if , as I am told , they are a branch of Ladbrokes , they are hedging their bets , i.e. waiting to see if any other company takes the first step ! |
| 20 | the player takes the first card and looks at it , if it is a question card ask the next player , one of the two questions |
| 21 | THE LABOUR PARTY took the first step yesterday towards diminishing the power of the trade unions in its policy-making procedures . |
| 22 | In Wardington take the first turn to the left on entering the village , it is signposted to ‘ Edgcote ’ . |