Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] first appearance " in BNC.
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| 1 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 2 | Paula made her first appearance at the Playhouse and in Liverpool 15 years ago in JB . |
| 3 | Police were anxious to avoid the ugly scenes when the two boys made their first appearance in court nine days ago . |
| 4 | The woodcut reproducible illustration , and even wooden letters for printing , made their first appearance in China , but it was as late as the fourteenth century in Europe before paper ( brought to Europe by the Arabs in the late twelfth century , when the traditional material of parchment was in short supply ) began to be extensively used for the new technology of xylography : repeatable woodcut designs in fabrics extended to rapidly reproducible illustrations . |
| 5 | Those with long memories may recall that the Solo made its first appearance at the 1987 Frankfurt Motor Show , but that was only a mock-up prototype . |
| 6 | A new high-grade fluorescence spectrophotometer from Hitachi Scientific Instruments made its first appearance . |
| 7 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 8 | In 1938 , just before Huggins reported on the treatment of prostatic cancer , Goodman and Gilman 's celebrated textbook of pharmacology made its first appearance . |
| 9 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |
| 10 | Nonesuch the magazine made its first appearance in 1911 . |
| 11 | The word ‘ sex ’ made its first appearance in English in 1382 when John Wyclif used it in his translation of the Old Testament ( Genesis VI . |
| 12 | Eventually , some finance was provided and a weekly paper called Uhuru ( ‘ Independence ’ ) made its first appearance on Independence Day , 9th December 1961 . |
| 13 | As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring . |
| 14 | The euro-commercial paper ( ECP ) market made its first appearance in the early 1970s . |
| 15 | In Britain the Foreign Office List made its first appearance in 1852 , while France began to produce its Annuaire Diplomatique from 1858 . |
| 16 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |
| 17 | Bingham acknowledged that his southern neighbours deserved their first appearance in the finals after beating the North for the first time in four attempts . |
| 18 | In ancient Greek myth Harlequin made his first appearance as Hermes ( or Mercury ) , the messenger of the gods and himself the god of all animals and travellers . |
| 19 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 20 | Harry was a little diffident to begin with , but he soon settled down and made his first appearance for Palace at outside-right when he came into the side for season 1922–23 on 30 September at Leicester . |
| 21 | He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago with his much-acclaimed ‘ What If Dolphins Talk Shit Too ? ’ and this summer he returned to play eight sell-out nights at the Assembly Rooms ' main theatre ( sponsored not by some Australian lager but by Stella Artois ) . |
| 22 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |
| 23 | Bill Levy took over as editor , and Mick Farren , whose relationship with It was to survive the history of the underground made his first appearance . |
| 24 | In the five years since the Inspector made his first appearance , the audience has grown to seven hundred and fifty million people worldwide . |
| 25 | The crowd chanted for the sacking of Gray , who made his first appearance in several months , and banned all his players from giving press interviews after the game . |
| 26 | BOBBY MOORE made his first appearance for England against Peru in 1962 . |
| 27 | And , most importantly for the lads , judging by the roar which greeted its first appearance , he can still windmill his right arm . |