Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 2 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 3 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 4 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 5 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 6 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 7 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 8 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 9 | And all you 'll get back is the £1.70 you paid on the first and second instalments . |
| 10 | Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done . |
| 11 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 12 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 13 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 14 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 15 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 16 | A vanishing ! ’ they exclaimed , hearing the nacarena 's voice pour through the pulled blinds from the house marked with black crosses and hung with newly dyed banners of death ; women 's voices , giving birth to the eternal soul , were louder than the priest 's obsequies , the relatives ' rosaries , and the lullabies they sang after the first birth , the entry into the mortal transit . |
| 17 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 18 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 19 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 21 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 22 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 23 | Dana read a group of modern Americans , which must have annoyed the British , starting with Elizabeth Bishop 's ‘ The Fish ’ — I can still hear his voice , the faint American accent and the hushed astonishment he put into the first line : ‘ I caught a tremendous fish … . ’ |
| 24 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 25 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 26 | Next the designer moves on to the exceptions , such as a and s , all the while bearing in mind the axis he established with the first letter he designed . |
| 27 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 28 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 29 | In P3/T1 we pivoted in the first column because |
| 30 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |