Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] that the first " in BNC.

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1 She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress .
2 The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed .
3 The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible .
4 Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average .
5 Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant .
6 The company said that the first six months of the year ‘ have seen more new business than during any previous period ’ .
7 As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo .
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