Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 2 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 3 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Silence was observed as she moved a table to stand between Charlotte and the chair Natasha had sat in , then arranged the china and poured the first cups . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She threw herself off the bed and hauled the first outfit that came to hand from the wardrobe . |
| 8 | DeFreitas injured a thigh muscle early in the tour and missed the first Test . |
| 9 | She lifted the receiver and dialled the first number with great care . |
| 10 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) . |
| 13 | When DJS ( D. J. Smith ) spent a whole night walking with a probationer who could find nothing at ail to do , the probationer eventually waited on a main road where there was virtually no traffic and stopped the first two cars that came by . |
| 14 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 15 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |