Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a bribe-riddled deal which resulted in the first imprisonment of a former cabinet official . |
| 2 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 3 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 4 | Clinton needed five stitches in an eye cut he suffered in the first round , when he also badly displaced the knuckles on his left hand . |
| 5 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 6 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 7 | Appointed principal of the Calcutta School of Art and keeper of the Government Art Gallery in 1896 , a post he held until 1906 , he was responsible for momentous changes in the art-school curriculum which led to the first Indian nationalist art movement , the Bengal School of Painting , under the artist Abanindranath Tagore . |
| 8 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 9 | As it banked over the Cambrian Mountains , the reservoir which featured in the first party political broadcast sparkled far below . |
| 10 | Three miles below the village they came upon the first of the hallowed plantations of Father Noah . |
| 11 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 12 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 13 | In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal . |
| 14 | William Temple , while Archbishop of York , wrote in the York Quarterly , a journal which expired in the first year of the Second World War . |
| 15 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 16 | Yes , Chair , it 's er , remember at the , the last meeting we touched on the first part of the report , the worry about the issue of closing shops , and rural post offices and garages , and there 's considerable interest from all members er , as to what could be done . |
| 17 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 18 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 19 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 20 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 21 | ‘ The night we kissed for the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 23 | London , who retain the side that defeated the Midlands last weekend , are favourites to clinch the title they won for the first time last year . |
| 24 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | Within a few yards of the bank on which they had spent the uneasy night they came across the first sign of man . |
| 26 | The self pride he showed in the first two books is shown to be the very cause of his gradual destruction and inner hell . |
| 27 | Dana read a group of modern Americans , which must have annoyed the British , starting with Elizabeth Bishop 's ‘ The Fish ’ — I can still hear his voice , the faint American accent and the hushed astonishment he put into the first line : ‘ I caught a tremendous fish … . ’ |
| 28 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 29 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 30 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |