Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 2 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 3 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , following Rocard 's use of the procedure authorized by Article 49.3 of the Constitution ( whereby in the absence of a motion of censure a law was adopted on its first reading ) , the RPR presented a motion of censure on the arms expenditure bill which obtained only 159 of the of 289 votes required to gain a simple majority . |
| 4 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 5 | In July last year came the news that the WRVS was looking for its first chief executive . |
| 6 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 7 | Both knew the other was thinking of their first meeting and the case of murder in which Meredith had found herself so painfully entangled . |
| 8 | The administration of President George Bush was subjected to its first serious alarm concerning the 66-year-old President 's health when , on May 4 , Bush was hospitalized after developing a rapid and irregular heartbeat . |
| 9 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 10 | Bishop Daly was speaking during his first interview since suffering the stroke seven months ago . |
| 11 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |
| 12 | A much more serious crisis of a similar nature arose immediately after the Iraqi coup of July 1957 when the Hashemite dynasty was overthrown , and the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East was put to its first test . |
| 13 | Q My two-year-old mongrel bitch was spayed after her first season — when she was about six months old . |
| 14 | Lean 's realist reputation was enlarged by his first Dickens adaptation , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) but , by the time he came to film the extraordinary expressionist opening to Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , questions were being asked . |
| 15 | He walked free from court after after it was revealed that a detective in the case was sleeping with his first wife . |
| 16 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 17 | Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic . |