Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lara , who hit a brilliant century in the four-wicket win over Pakistan in the first one-day game , slammed 10 fours in his innings of 106 balls . |
| 2 | With the approach of civil war , Moore pledged his support to Parliament , being named a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 24 March 1642 and taking part in July in the first military action of the war in Manchester , which was secured after a skirmish with Lord Strange . |
| 3 | ‘ I might have died , you mean , ’ said Julia in the first lawyerly voice of her convalescence and then was sorry when she saw his face . |
| 4 | In July 1990 , the then New Zealand Minister for Tourism and Disarmament and Arms Control , Fran Wilde , visited Fiji in the first direct contact between the two countries since the coups of 1987 . |
| 5 | There were , I found myself thinking , a hell of a lot of people called Roger in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 6 | The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years |
| 7 | The man hitherto thought to have played for Australia in the first two test ( meaning international ) matches on record , at Melbourne in 1876–77 , now turns out to have been quite another Hodges . |
| 8 | Oil giant Shell UK appeared in court at Birkenhead , Merseyside yesterday charged with polluting the River Mersey in the first major case brought by the new pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority . |
| 9 | and the resourceful Jeeves Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry find themselves back in New York in the first new episode of the new and final series of Jeeves and Wooster beginning on I T V this week . |
| 10 | NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , plans to send a 625-member peacekeeping force to Central America in the first serious test of the regional peace agreement signed in August . |