Example sentences of "[noun sg] first [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lost the opportunity to oppose the factory itself , local opposition first focused on the factory 's dumping plans . |
| 2 | When practice first begins on the patterns , a beginner often loses direction instantly and executes a block or a kick to the wrong side . |
| 3 | Serious violence first erupted on the evening of the second day of the trial ( 28 February ) , when a contingent of Sacheverell 's supporters smashed the windows of Dr Burgess 's meeting house in Lincoln Inn Fields , and then proceeded to do the same to his house . |
| 4 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 5 | On May 25 the United States Congress finally approved US$300,000,000 in aid first requested by the US government in March [ see p. 37311 ] . |
| 6 | This article is taken from a longer piece first published in The Independent on 19 February 1990 . |
| 7 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago when the Beatles ' I Want To Hold Your Hand was number one . |
| 8 | The programme first went on the air 28 years ago and its DJs have included Jimmy Savile , Tony Blackburn and Kenny Everett . |
| 9 | To compete in the all-important fleet market , sub-2-litre category lead-in versions of Safrane utilise the multivalve , 1995cc , four-cylinder engine first introduced on the Renault 25 in July 1989 . |
| 10 | The 1.8-litre petrol engine first introduced in the Clio during May 1991 is similar to the unit now also offered in some models of the Renault 19 . |
| 11 | Recent major signings OCEAN COLOUR SCENE first surfed into the indie charts last summer with the delightfully trippy ‘ Sway ’ . |
| 12 | During the course of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries over 60 per cent of the parish churches in England were extensively rebuilt , normally in the magnificent Perpendicular style of Gothic architecture first employed in the construction of Gloucester Cathedral during the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | How the Manx cat first arrived on the Isle of Man is hotly debated . |
| 14 | When the Angelfish first came onto the market , it was an aggressive fish which showed its intolerance towards other tank mates . |
| 15 | Central News South first took to the air for the first time on January 9th 1989 . |
| 16 | In the 80 years since the aeroplane first appeared in the county , it has brought a great deal of pleasure and prosperity . |
| 17 | Phylloxera first appeared in the Champagne vineyards at Treloup , in the Aisne dëpartement , in 1890 . |
| 18 | When the group first walked into the White Hart pub the whole place went quiet , said landlord Adam Rimmer , 33 , yesterday . |
| 19 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 20 | Ex-music journalist Nick Kelly and his band first came into the public eye in 1989 with the release of the excellent single ‘ Arclight ’ , which was voted Single of the Year in the 1989 Hot Press readers ' poll . |
| 21 | The idea of Simultaneity first appeared in the preface to the Futurist exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery : it had its origin in Boccioni 's series of States of Mind , and was primarily the Bergsonian concept that a picture must be a synthesis of what is remembered and what has been seen , a synthetic visual impression comprising not merely the various aspects of a single object , but any feature related to it , physically or psychologically . |
| 22 | When the mutation that produces aposematic colour first appears in the population it will be rare ; but it will nevertheless be common in particular families , as it will be present in many of the siblings in those families with the mutation . |
| 23 | His name first appeared in the record of a Society Meeting as No. 32 from the Catalogue of the Foreign Associates , or Honorary Members of the Academy : ‘ Filippo Miller Sopraintendente dell' Orto Medico di Chelsea a Londra ’ . |
| 24 | When Peter Mantle first arrived in the Doolough Valley five years ago and saw the three lakes linked by the Bundorragha River glinting in the sun , he was completely smitten . |
| 25 | Dr Pedretti has named the drawing The Angel in the Flesh , a phrase first used by the Renaissance scholar Cellini to describe Leonardo . |
| 26 | Needing to find precisely when their electrical axis first originated in the development of the animal , he began mapping the fields in progressively earlier stages of salamander embryogenesis and discovered that the electrical axis originated in the unfertilized egg , thus contradicting conventional biological and genetic theory . |
| 27 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 28 | He also confirmed that he had authorized US aid to Honduras in return for Honduran assistance to the contras , a quid pro quo arrangement first revealed during the trial of Oliver North [ see p. 36649 ] , but he claimed that the linkage within the arrangement had not been made explicit . |
| 29 | The duo first came to the fore via their input on A Guy Called Gerald 's ‘ Voodoo Ray ’ , through their own fine single ‘ All This And Heaven Too ’ , and their production work on Kiss AMC 's category-confusing ‘ A Bit Of U2 ’ . |
| 30 | The solid foamed skin first formed on the top would then be steadily lifted by the foaming of the combustion-zone beneath and a vertical foamed ‘ pillar ’ rise from the block . |