Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | Billie Jean King played in the first five Federation Cup finals . |
| 3 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 4 | Mark Bright and David Hirst struck in the first half , with Carlton Palmer and Roland Nilsson adding two more to kill off Rangers . |
| 5 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 6 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 7 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 8 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |
| 9 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 10 | Early in yesterday 's session Mansell slid through the first turn , hit a curb and soared through the air before landing hard on his wheels . |
| 11 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 12 | Mr Nicholls spoke for the first time . |
| 13 | There was some close racing in the Mirror fleet until Tom Alexander capsized on the first spinnaker reach losing his second place leaving Chris Morgan to win convincingly over Chris Knights . |
| 14 | Mr. Gardiner relied on the first part of this quotation as stating the principle of recoverability in wide terms . |
| 15 | Mrs Bolger who 's expecting a baby next month has not been in court but her husband Ralph sat through the first two days . |
| 16 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 17 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 18 | At about the same time , Jamal Hamadan put in the first of the 60 telephone calls he would make from Paris to Fawaz Younis in Beirut before the trap was sprung . |
| 19 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 20 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 21 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 22 | By 1990 , only Sir Geoffrey Howe survived from the first cabinet . |
| 23 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |
| 24 | Betty Rizzo observes that Philip Leapor voted for the first time in the 1749 election for Knight of the Shire , and judges from this that he had used the capital from the subscription to buy his freehold [ Rizzo ] . |
| 25 | Then little Meg Giry spoke for the first time . |
| 26 | Jens Österlund emerged as the first Sailing Challenge contender but he was chased home by two British boats , Mark Goodchild and Mike Fenwick . |
| 27 | She also knew that some of her preferences were base in the extreme , and that her affection for Peter de Salis sprang at the first most ignobly from his delightful name . |
| 28 | De Gaulle said for the first time since their defeat , the French people had reason to hope for liberation . |
| 29 | TV was then considered ( in Europe and the USA ( to exercise a decisive political influence : de Gaulle emerged as the first French politician who both mastered the instrument , the RTF organization , while proving a charismatic performer . |
| 30 | Top scorer Craig Maskell whacked in the first . |