Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle . |
| 2 | Some pupils who failed on the first occasion might subsequently succeed because of increasing insight into a concept or because a skill has been practised . |
| 3 | The Soviet announcement in September 1989 that it was to dismantle the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia ( see p. 36909 ) was followed by a statement on Oct. 23 , 1989 , by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , who admitted for the first time that the location and orientation of the radar station constituted " a violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 4 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 5 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 6 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 7 | Yes , they 've got a week or two to get it together and send it in , but we know from what people have pledged that that 's what we can expect at least , and that 's from over a thousand cyclists ranging from , I saw one child in a seat behind their parents on a bike , up to an eighty nine year old lady from Brill who cycled for the first time in years and really enjoyed it . |
| 8 | The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village . |
| 9 | There was also a great deal of indignation among ordinary British citizens who discovered for the first time after the massacre in Timişoara that Romania was ruled by a brutal tyrant who enjoyed the privileges of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath . |
| 10 | But Agnew 's , who exhibited for the first time this year and made at least one sale of ‘ around $50,000 ’ said they were ‘ pleased with the quality of the crowd and would definitely do the show next year ’ . |
| 11 | Lendl , who lost in the first round of the Australian and French Opens this season and had won just one match at Wimbledon , insists he is not about to fade into the sunset . |
| 12 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 13 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 14 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 15 | Who went to the first home game in our promotion year ? |
| 16 | The first on the village green is in the style of an Eleanor Cross , and dedicated to men from the estate who died during the First World War . |
| 17 | We 're talking about the people who died in the first world war . |
| 18 | The people who emigrated in the first stage were mainly farming families from the state of Gujerat ( see map ) and craft-workers from Punjab , while those who came directly to Britain in the 1950s and 60s were mainly farming families from Gujerat and the Indian and Pakistani areas of Punjab . |
| 19 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 20 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 21 | Ivy Compton-Burnett , who wrote beyond the First World War of ancestral houses in the 1890s , the setting of her own childhood , once declared that ‘ when an age is finished you see it as it is ’ . |
| 22 | I also wish to thank the hon. Member for Glasgow , Shettleston ( Mr. Marshall ) who suggested in the first place that the Bill should apply to Scotland as well as to England and Wales . |
| 23 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 24 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |