Example sentences of "[prep] the first english " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , for example , the familiar reference to ‘ playing at Creag ’ ( i.e. Creag-et ) in the wardrobe accounts for the first English Prince of Wales for March 1300 . |
| 2 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 3 | As the son of a stalwart Anglo-Catholic Halifax loved the form of the first English Prayer Book , that of 1549 under King Edward VI . |
| 4 | According to Andrew Boorde , the author of the first English book of domestic medicine ( his Dyetary ) lettuce was to be avoided at all costs by anyone who valued his or her sex life . |
| 5 | Above : Engraving of the first English aeronaut , James Sadler Esq . |
| 6 | Even the critic Arthur Jerome Eddy , who was the author of the first English book on Cubism and a cautious supporter of the movement , was able to write : ‘ In short Picasso and a few followers have reached a degree of abstraction in the suppression of the real and the particular that their paintings represent the same degree of emotion as the demonstration of a difficult geometrical proposition . ’ |
| 7 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 8 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 9 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |