Example sentences of "[pron] gave the first " in BNC.
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1 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
2 | With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air . |
3 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
4 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
5 | Then for his doctoral thesis ( 1799 ) he gave the first ever proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra ( Section 4.8 ) . |
6 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
7 | Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap . |
8 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |