Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 2 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 3 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 4 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 5 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 6 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 7 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 8 | Appointed principal of the Calcutta School of Art and keeper of the Government Art Gallery in 1896 , a post he held until 1906 , he was responsible for momentous changes in the art-school curriculum which led to the first Indian nationalist art movement , the Bengal School of Painting , under the artist Abanindranath Tagore . |
| 9 | key operated security bolts which mortice into the first closing leaf top and bottom |
| 10 | for double leaf hinged doors flush mounted bolts fitted top and bottom to the inner meeting edge of the first closing leaf or key operated security bolts which mortice into the first closing leaf top and bottom |
| 11 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 12 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 13 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
| 14 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 15 | Much cheered , she bit into the first forkful . |
| 16 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
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| 18 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 19 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 20 | They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn , Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door . |
| 21 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 22 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 23 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 24 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 25 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
| 26 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 27 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 29 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |