Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 2 | Billie Jean King played in the first five Federation Cup finals . |
| 3 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 4 | Mark Bright and David Hirst struck in the first half , with Carlton Palmer and Roland Nilsson adding two more to kill off Rangers . |
| 5 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 6 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 7 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 8 | LONELY toddler Demelza Young cuddles for the first time the answer to her dreams — her new granny . |
| 9 | On Jan. 27 the Pakistan government announced for the first time its full support for the UN peace plan [ see p. 38194 ] and the conference , and called upon the mujaheddin to follow its lead . |
| 10 | David Oldfield headed Leicester ahead in the 10th minute and two minutes later David Lowe volleyed in the first of his two goals . |
| 11 | Ben 's mother Sheila Silcock writes for the first time about her experiences . |
| 12 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 13 | The Supreme Court 's July ruling admitted for the first time in 16 years the right of individual states to restrict abortions during the first six months of pregnancy . |
| 14 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 15 | Mr Nicholls spoke for the first time . |
| 16 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 17 | There was some close racing in the Mirror fleet until Tom Alexander capsized on the first spinnaker reach losing his second place leaving Chris Morgan to win convincingly over Chris Knights . |
| 18 | Mr. Gardiner relied on the first part of this quotation as stating the principle of recoverability in wide terms . |
| 19 | ‘ We are ready for any onslaught that the white authorities might try to launch against us , ’ Mr Rockman said after the first meeting in his home on Monday of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union . |
| 20 | At Lingfield blinkers fitted for the first time could enable Bob Jones ' Lookingforarainbow to win the Daily Star Challenge Final . |
| 21 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 22 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 23 | At about the same time , Jamal Hamadan put in the first of the 60 telephone calls he would make from Paris to Fawaz Younis in Beirut before the trap was sprung . |
| 24 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 25 | Mr Geremek said as a first step Poland would soon seek full membership in the Council of Europe . |
| 26 | Manager Graeme Souness had Steve Nicol and Rob Jones back in training yesterday , while Jan Molby trained for the first time after his ankle injury . |
| 27 | Kawasaki Steel Corp displayed for the first time the Universe FR fault-resilient computer which it sells under a distribution arrangement with Charles River Data Systems , Framingham , Massachusetts . |
| 28 | By 1990 , only Sir Geoffrey Howe survived from the first cabinet . |
| 29 | ANDRE AGASSI will claim a slice of unwanted history if his Wimbledon defence falters at the first hurdle next Monday . |
| 30 | The United States accepted for the first time the phrase ‘ legitimate rights of the Palestinian people ’ and called for the participation of the ‘ Palestinian people ’ , a major concession to the Soviet Union , in return for Soviet retraction of its previous insistence on the participation of the PLO , the establishment of an independent Palestinian state , and the total withdrawal of Israeli forces to the 1949 Armistice Line . |