Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
2 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |
3 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
4 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
5 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
6 | She first met Molly Braithwaite when , as Director of Physical Education and Social Activities at the Central London Polytechnic she opened the first Medau Rhythmical Movement class with Molly as its teacher . |
7 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
8 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
9 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
10 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
11 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
12 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
13 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
14 | The reason he survived the first strike is the reason that you all escaped the second . |
15 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
16 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
17 | ‘ The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game . |
18 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
19 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
20 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
21 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
22 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
23 | At his works in London he built the first carriage used on the L & B line and also the carriages for the Eastern Counties , the London and Brighton , the London & South-Eastern , the London South-Western , the Blackwall Railways . |
24 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
25 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |
26 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
27 | As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages . |