Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
2 | Both David Whitaker and Verity Lambert had been captivated by Terry Nation 's Dalek story right from the moment they saw the first ‘ treatment ’ ( story idea ) . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
5 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
6 | The reason he survived the first strike is the reason that you all escaped the second . |
7 | Lo and behold , you have the full twelve month series from Jan to Dec done and dusted , in the format you typed the first one . |
8 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
9 | ‘ The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
12 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |
13 | 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 . ’ |