Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 2 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 3 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 4 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 5 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 6 | The Glasgow Gangs grew out of the First World War , when those too young to fight or know any better began to hang around street corners . |
| 7 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 8 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 9 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 10 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 11 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 12 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 13 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 14 | As Hilary Graham pointed out in the first edition of this book : |
| 15 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 16 | Lane sprang out of the first car at his approach . |
| 17 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 18 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 19 | In the Plate final — for teams knocked out in the first round of the Chairman 's Cup — Fife beat Perth 4–2 . |
| 20 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |
| 21 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |
| 22 | THE PRINCESS of Wales last night spoke out for the first time about the ‘ untrue and hurtful ’ allegations about friction between her , and the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 23 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 24 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 25 | Twenty-eight years ago Liverpool beat Arsenal 3-2 and 20,000 people tuned in to the first edition to hear Kenneth Wolstenholme describe the action . |
| 26 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 27 | Ho looked round for the first time at the massed ranks of Glories with their headlights blazing , and the two figures , stark in the hard glaring light of those headlights , seated opposite each other at the stone table under the Monument . |
| 28 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 29 | Instead , a message came through during the first part of the show that Sigourney loved Julian , and was asking specifically to be seated next to him . |
| 30 | Almost 35 million Americans tuned in to the first , two-hour pilot , making it the most watched TV movie of the season . |