Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the first [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1651 the Dutch republic forbade its diplomats to accept gifts from foreign governments ; and in 1692 regulations were issued in Sweden which for the first time specified the value of those to be given to foreign representatives on their departure . |
| 2 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 3 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 4 | Shortly afterwards Metzinger published an article in the literary review Pan on the work of Picasso , Braque , Le Fauconnier and Delaunay in which he proclaimed a new type of painting which for the first time broke with hellenic traditions . |
| 5 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 6 | A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states . |
| 7 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 8 | Manjrekar , who in the first Test struggled for 36 minutes for a duck , batted nine minutes short of five hours before India , 31 ahead on first innings , declared at 312–8 . |
| 9 | Much interest focused on the attitude of interim Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy , who in the first round had supported the veteran nationalist Jacques Rabemananjara rather than Zafy . |
| 10 | Bastian , the independent scholar/dealer , who organised the show together with another independent curator , Werner Spies , says that he is most pleased with the reaction of an old couple from Dresden , who on the first day said that they had been longing to see Picasso 's work for forty years . |
| 11 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 12 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |