Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 2 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 3 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 4 | So they cancelled the first show and had the day off so they could set up all the gear . |
| 5 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 6 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 7 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 8 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 9 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 11 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 12 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 13 | Three days later he became the first President in American history to resign his office . |
| 14 | Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country . |
| 15 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 16 | A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party . |
| 17 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 18 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 19 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 20 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 21 | It was one reason why I caught the first flight home . |
| 22 | Instead she blurted the first thing that came into her head . |
| 23 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 24 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 25 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 26 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 27 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 28 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 29 | I mean you 'll spend just what you wan na spend in Spain , I mean like we , the night , when we went the first time , we took an ice box , but oh , we |
| 30 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |