Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [vb past] [art] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 4 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 5 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 6 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 10 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 11 | 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 . |