Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [art] first [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Amazingly , all four goals came from free kicks , with Brentford 's transfer-seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick .
2 Amazingly all four goals came from free kicks with Brentford 's transfer seeking defender Bates heading the first after 13 minutes from a Billy Manuel free kick .
3 Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books .
4 Further arrests were reported in the ensuing days , and on Dec. 30 the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency reported the first of a series of " intensive " police campaigns against " hotbeds of terrorism and extremism " in other areas of Cairo .
5 The space shuttle launched the first of these last week ( see below ) .
6 As the dawn patrol began the first of their two qualifying rounds from which 64 players will move into the match play stage the only sound to be heard was the twittering of larks overhead .
7 It was a special week for all of us , ’ said Patrick , who was only 11 when brother John won the first of seven successive Masters doubles titles in 1978 with Peter Fleming .
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