Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holland I sank before the first nuclear tests and was shielded by the sea from radiation . |
| 2 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 3 | I knew an immovable object when I saw it , and I retreated through the first sleeping car , where grooms in T-shirts lolled in open day compartments ( shut off by heavy felt curtains for sleeping ) , on my way to consult with the Chinese chef in the forward dome car 's kitchen . |
| 4 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 5 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 6 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
| 7 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 8 | Much cheered , she bit into the first forkful . |
| 9 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
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| 11 | We found in the first covert and then twice more , I ca n't remember so many good runs in a day before , not all at once . ’ |
| 12 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 13 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 14 | They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn , Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door . |
| 15 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 16 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 17 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 18 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 19 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
| 20 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 21 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 23 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
| 25 | It emerged from the First Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries in the USA in 1971 , and became a working reality as Project LOEX in 1972 . |
| 26 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
| 27 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |