Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 2 | But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle . |
| 3 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 4 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 5 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
| 6 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 7 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 8 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 9 | The CNAA knew from the first meeting of its sub-committee to discuss courses in education , in July 1965 , that the DES was moving towards a policy of teacher education in some technical colleges , and that the DES thought it reasonable that they should come to the CNAA for validation . |
| 10 | One of the liveliest days of the campaign came during the first week . |
| 11 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 12 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 13 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 14 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 15 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 16 | The revelations emerged on the first day of the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , representing the worst possible news for beleaguered international athletics officials coming hot on the heels of the repeat Ben Johnson scandal . |
| 17 | The minutes of the meeting held on the first |
| 18 | Forty four year old Michael Byrne from Westlea in the town fell from a first floor window in the multi-storey ward block . |
| 19 | The announcement came on the first day of a planned four-day general strike called by the Confederation of Trade Unions ( CTU ) to protest at the country 's perilous economic situation [ see p. 38836 ] . |
| 20 | The floods started in the first week of February , killing at least 230 people and sweeping away farmland , roads , irrigation networks and power lines . |
| 21 | Then , just short of his hall at Forteviot , the King came across the first group of injured . |
| 22 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 23 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 24 | This was n't sufficient to make up the ground lost in the first half and the outcome for the year as a whole , you now see . |
| 25 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 26 | ’ He must have known where the phetam went in the first stage , ’ Mala said . |
| 27 | The tittering started during the first five minutes of the piece , and grew . |
| 28 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 29 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 30 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |