Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Cook subsequently lent it to the National Gallery , London , from October 1989 to February of this year , where , for the first time seen in the company of undisputed masterpieces by Antonello , its autograph status as an Antonello was regained . |
| 2 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 3 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 4 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 5 | England 's dreams of winning the cricket World Cup for the first time ended in disappointment today with defeat at the hands of Pakistan . |
| 6 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 7 | Module 2 requires the learner for the first time to write in the language . |
| 8 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 9 | At the bottom of page one , there was a story about the first American lost in the war : Lieutenant-Commander Michael Scott Speicher . |
| 10 | One of the first things required in the practice of tai chi chuan is to come to terms with its slow , dreamlike movements . |
| 11 | The next county was Denbigh , in those days before the ‘ bigger-is-better ’ shuffle took place , and we arrived there just in time to have the door of the first pub shut in our faces with the sort of clank against which pleas and arguments would be obviously unrewarding . |
| 12 | A dollop of cranberry sauce has been the traditional accompaniment to turkey since the Pilgrim Fathers ate what they called crane berries ( the flowers resemble cranes ) — probably in the form of a sauce — with turkey at the Thanksgiving feast , celebrating their survival of the first winter spent in America . |
| 13 | A recent example of the first category appeared in a contract for the construction of offshore oil exploration facilities in the North Seatechnical disputes about whether the work or the facilities complied with the contract were to be referred to an expert . |
| 14 | Michael George Wittet was born in Bombay in 1918 , the son of a consulting architect from Perth and a French mother who was one of the first women to graduate in history and languages at the Sorbonne in Paris . |
| 15 | Though Park spent most of the first half pinned in their own territory , Nottingham had only two penalty goals and a Gregory dropped goal to show for their efforts . |
| 16 | And Hathaway , ‘ a small company of dedicated craftsmen in the little town of Waterville , Maine , ’ said their advertisements , ‘ who have been at it , man and boy , for 114 years ’ , sold out their stock of shirts within a week of the first eyepatch appearing in The New Yorker . |
| 17 | On July 1 , the anniversary date of the first train arriving in Taunton , an InterCity HST Power Car will be named ‘ County of Somerset ’ in the morning , followed by the first VIP run over the WSR by National Railway Museum loco No. 3440 ‘ City of Truro ’ in the afternoon . |
| 18 | Apart from explorers and travellers , one of the first Englishmen to settle in Madeira was William Bolton , in 1695 , when he took advantage of the Act of Charles 11 which prohibited the export of goods grown or manufactured in Europe to the West Indies and American Colonies , unless shipped from British ports in British ships , with Madeira specifically excluded from its terms . |
| 19 | Their interest originally lay in Italian mosaics , with the first acquisition made in 1960 . |
| 20 | Building work began towards the end of the same year with the first product produced in July 1990 . |
| 21 | The disease is rare in Japan but begins to become more common in the first generation born in the United States , and approximates the rate prevailing in the US by the second generation . |
| 22 | With a treble which had caused major problems in the first round included in the jump-off course , Raymakers could not afford to go at racing pace but it certainly looked hot enough to give his rival something to think about . |
| 23 | The value of the first parameter in the line using the procedure or function is passed to the first variable named in the parameter list in the definition , the second to the second , and so on . |
| 24 | In the upshot , however , the government decided on the first option proposed in its discussion document , namely the establishment of an advisory body dominated by local authority representatives , the Welsh Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education ( WAB ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Monumental Reputation ’ , arranged and researched by Iain Brown of the National Library ( following a suggestion by Alastair Rowan who has contributed a tape-slide presentation on Adam ) , is among the first attempts to explore in detail the making of an archaeological folio which changed the face of contemporary design . |
| 26 | Bees : Bumble bees are among the first insects to appear in the spring . |
| 27 | This was followed on 1 July 1893 by the first all-corridor trains in the UK : three new trains of six coaches each , used on the West Coast route to Scotland , two in service and one in reserve . |