Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 4 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 9 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
| 10 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 11 | Much cheered , she bit into the first forkful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn , Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door . |
| 15 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 16 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 17 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 21 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
| 23 | It emerged from the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries in the USA in 1971 , and became a working reality as Project LOEX in 1972 . |
| 24 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |