Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 2 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 3 | In the 1950s , Professor Paul carried out the first experiments using a form of magnetic bottle — the ‘ Paul trap ’ — to isolate ionised atoms . |
| 4 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 5 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 6 | Conrad Allen put in a first appearance on the track in the 600 metres at Crawley . |
| 7 | I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West Passage . |
| 8 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 9 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 10 | Newry only had a couple of first half chances , with big Barry Hunter cancelling out the first when he intercepted a Gary Hughes shot . |
| 11 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 12 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 13 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |