Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [art] first [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 He grinned at her , his fleshy lips curled into a knowing line , and Fran felt the first stirrings of anger damp down on the fear .
2 The Greek goddess of vegetation and fruitfulness , Demeter gave the first seeds of wheat to mankind and taught him how to cultivate the soil and make bread from the grain .
3 At 1.24am on April 26th 1986 , the 14 men in the control room of reactor number four at Chernobyl witnessed the first stirrings of what was to become the worst nuclear accident in history .
4 RUSSELL HOULT conceded the first goals of his professional career and was lucky not to be sent off as Leicester crashed out of the Anglo Italian Cup .
5 You remember that von Bülow prepared the first performances of the Fourth Symphony with the Meiningen Orchestra but that Brahms himself accompanied and conducted the German tour .
6 In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic .
7 Lucien experienced the first inklings of how the Ixmarites might possibly manipulate their own rules for their convenience .
8 A perfect baby , Merrick showed the first signs of deformity at the age of twenty-one months .
9 Vologsky felt the first tremblings of real fear creeping into his own body .
10 When Maxwell published the first details of the kinetic theory of gases in 1859 , in that very same paper he acknowledged the fact that the theory was falsified by measurements on the specific heats of gases .
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