Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 2 | A party was held at A L'Ecu de France to celebrate the first night , and on the following evening a small reception was held at Kensington Court Gardens to celebrate his seventieth birthday . |
| 3 | The Spencer soap opera was launched when Raine , daughter of the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland , married Lord Spencer to become the first member of the cast . |
| 4 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 5 | I desire you will send by y bearer 2 quarts of Sugar Hotspur peas to set the first crop , & half a peck of Windsor Beans , & pray bring y Hammer with you w . |
| 6 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 7 | She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot . |