Sentence examples for failed the first from inspiring English sources

They have already failed the first, against Liverpool.

Of course, Mrs. King failed the First Lady in one crucial respect.

George Washington almost failed the first; Bill Clinton finessed the second.

"But I failed the first year, and I really had no ambition to do it".

It was almost like we got past that and said: 'All right, we failed the first test, but let's go.

It's as if any child could be viewed as an exam they'd failed the first time around.

"I failed the first time, but it doesn't mean I'll fail the second," he said about the presidency, speaking in a mix of French and British-accented English.

But there are three reasons to think otherwise.First, Mr Brown has not yet conclusively failed the first test of all prime ministers: the Hippocratic one.

I know many students who failed the first time and had to take it a second or even a third time.

ImClone Systems' cancer drug Erbitux has failed the first clinical trial in which it was compared with a placebo, doctors conducting the trials said here today.

All three kicks failed; the first two were called back because of penalties and the third was recovered by the Jets.