Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 2 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 3 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 4 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 5 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 6 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 7 | In this decade , Glasgow held a Grand Bazaar and the first ever exhibition of deaf art ; it also built its new deaf centre , had a flourishing soccer team and staged the first soccer international between Scotland and England . |
| 8 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 9 | So that on er if you look at the crew picture this is the crew that flew the first mission to Gdynia , Poland except kneeling the second man from the left is , he did not go , I flew the co-pilot position . |
| 10 | He switched on the radio , found a music station and followed the first limousine out of the airport onto the Grand Central Parkway , heading towards Manhattan . |
| 11 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 12 | In the following years the population in the areas of West Bowling and Horton increased enormously with the growth of the worsted industry and the building of new steam-powered mills , so that in November 1881 Canon Motler established St Joseph 's as a new parish and became the first parish priest himself . |
| 13 | Although Anker Simmons was one of the original quartet and chaired the first meeting , he does not figure greatly in the Club 's affairs after the first few months . |
| 14 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 15 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 16 | Bradford thereafter took the lead in the provision of medical inspection on a large scale and established the first school treatment clinic , developments which owed much to the energy of Margaret McMillan . |
| 17 | DeFreitas injured a thigh muscle early in the tour and missed the first Test . |
| 18 | Mrs Dass come on in a fluffy magenta dress and awarded the first prize to last year 's carnival queen and the second to Mr Swayles and the third to Mrs Muller . |
| 19 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 20 | The Tsar wavered briefly and then , urged by Stolypin and others to stand firm , he rejected any step which might lead to parliamentary government and dissolved the First Duma . |
| 21 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 22 | By now I had a baby sister Clare , and it was something that happened to her which helped to shape my destiny and provided the first step on my road to Koraloona . |
| 23 | She lifted the receiver and dialled the first number with great care . |
| 24 | Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square , were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building . |
| 25 | The London side needed three points for their automatic promotion challenge and dominated the first half . |
| 26 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 27 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 28 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 29 | Melvil Dewey , a famous librarian , devised the decimal classification system and published the first edition of it in 1876 , when he was 21 . |
| 30 | In that sense , Huxley suggested , evolution had no more to do with theism than had the first book of Euclid . |