Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14 members of each section attended the first night . |
| 2 | In 1930 the Royal College of Public Health started the first family-planning courses for physicians . |
| 3 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 4 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 5 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |