Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
3 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
4 | She started as the first hired staff person . |
5 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
6 | Much cheered , she bit into the first forkful . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
10 | They slept in the first grey twitterings of dawn , Jay tore herself away to hang the prosaic Do Not Disturb sign on the door . |
11 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
12 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
13 | He showed in the first official Surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1925 and the following year he had his first solo show . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
16 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
17 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
18 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |