Example sentences of "first [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others . |
| 2 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 3 | The acceptance of his first article in about 1895 led to regular contributions to popular journals , including the Spectator and the Cornhill Magazine , with syndication in American journals . |
| 4 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 5 | SWITZERLAND 's Pirmin Zurbriggen yesterday won his first race in over a year in the World Cup Alpine super-giant slalom down Sestriere 's fast and slippery Kandahar course , while the overall champion , Marc Girardelli , crashed and was taken to hospital . |
| 6 | Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business . |
| 7 | The tape was cut by Ray and Debra Mason , petrol station section manager , allowing the first customers in to take advantage of the low priced JS petrol . |
| 8 | This was my first day in about eight months without my lifeline and I felt horribly alone . |
| 9 | it 's not a great deal , hassle , but the garden 's gon na look good when we 've finished it , get in the straight first day in we 'll hack down the back tree . |
| 10 | was the Well I suppose they had first claim in . |
| 11 | The grateful club played its first game in over a year last month , but , surprisingly , not in Broomfield and Alexander colours . |
| 12 | KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION , who release ‘ Breathing Fear ’ , their first single in over a year , through One Little Indian this week , have reshuffled three dates on their accompanying tour . |
| 13 | Within three years , his 90 wickets helped bring Trent Bridge its first championship in over half a century . |
| 14 | The first firm in on the act was the Skerne Iron Works which had a somewhat chequered career as an occasional supplier of bridgeworks to the Great North Railway which ran through Darlington . |
| 15 | Arrive home , carry first boxful in , go out again to car where Henry and Harriet are engaged in the first barney of Xmas , and to my horror hear front door slam behind me . |
| 16 | Mm , and she 's doing a B-Tech first diploma in . |
| 17 | First thing in . |
| 18 | ‘ We had our first barley in on July 5 last year — we 're a good three weeks behind . ’ |
| 19 | Tony Prescott , managing director with Health Images , the company behind the development , said : ‘ The whole building is finished now and we take our first patient in on April 13 . ’ |
| 20 | To first order in we obtain with the help of eqn ( 7.3 ) excluding the products in Γ because they are of order h 2 . |
| 21 | An exhibition that brings together ( for the first time in over a century ) the Pre-Raphaelites ' paintings , sculpture and decorative arts that decorated the houses of the region 's Victorian industrialists and entrepreneurs . |
| 22 | For a while Broad and Tavaré defended well , but then suddenly Holding , for the first time in over a year , decided to go back to his full-length run-up , without even having told Lloyd what he intended to do . |
| 23 | Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions . |
| 24 | The old man , propped in his chair for the first time in over a month , laid a trembling hand on the babe 's head . |
| 25 | In March 1992 I returned to New Zealand for the first time in over a dozen years , to sample again what light aviation there has to offer visitors . |
| 26 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 27 | As remaining male stragglers dragged their shocked bodies out and past the ‘ Men Only ’ sign , the women relaxed and , for the first time in over a quarter of a century , Irish women 's bodies felt the pleasure of sea and hot rocks in the Forty Foot at Sandycove . |
| 28 | It did rain there in 1971 … for the first time in about 400 years . |
| 29 | ON THURSDAY May 14 , GWR 4-4-0 No 3440 ‘ City of Truro ’ returned to her ‘ home town ’ , or rather ‘ home city ’ , for the first time in over thirty years . |
| 30 | Once more , for the first time in over 45 years , Dan Knight was back in England , back in the pilot 's seat of a B–17 that bore the name Mary Alice in the familiar yellow letters edged in red on the nose . |