Example sentences of "[noun prp] first [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nicolae Ceauşescu first arrived in the city , Bucharest contained a dazzling array of buildings of all styles : examples of its older Balkan heritage could be found side by side with grandiose business palaces in the style of Central Europe 's Griinderjahre of the 1870s , with Art Deco and Cubist designs around the corner . |
| 2 | According to The Wall Street Journal , Washington first heard about the coup plans from the wife of the rebel leader , Major Moises Giroldi , nearly three weeks ago . |
| 3 | A lifelong enthusiast of the stage , Hammerton first fell under the spell of music-hall as a boy in Glasgow ; from then on he attended performances of all the great variety artists of the day , and for a brief spell managed his own theatre company in Eastbourne . |
| 4 | The 29-year-old from Sydney first came to the United States in 1981 for the world junior championship and won it . |
| 5 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 6 | Frank Gambale first ran across the Ibanez 540 S series in 1986 . |
| 7 | When Ian Martin first announced to the world that he would be leaving the post of secretary general , there were few among us who could believe it . |
| 8 | As well as a rug he takes a book , author and title unspecified ; the eternal traveller is also the eternal student , and it is as ‘ the student ’ that Verkhovensky first appears in the manuscript drafts . |
| 9 | When Beth first came to the house , the rear garden was derelict . |
| 10 | Fearfrost was forged by the ancient khan-queen Miska of the Gospodars in the ancient days when the tribes of Kislev first journeyed to the west . |
| 11 | The XP–59A first took to the air on October 1 , 1942 . |
| 12 | BENGALI beauty Rupa Ganguli first came to the notice of the celebrated film-maker B R Chopra when she appeared in the TV serial Ganadevta. v She was sensational as a peasant girl in a blouseless sari . |
| 13 | Since the EEC first voted against the imports , in December , West Germany has decided to impose a ban regardless of the final vote . |
| 14 | But of course , Medau first appeared in the WEST MIDLANDS and NORTH WEST much earlier . |
| 15 | Her opponent , Wilma Aitken , was born in the year that Belle first played in the final . |
| 16 | It was during her sister 's romance that Diana first came into the path of the man considered then to be the world 's most eligible bachelor . |
| 17 | Oswald first appeared at the Midland Railway Centre in August and was an immense success . |
| 18 | by vigorous and confident campaigning Carter first succeeded in the Iowa caucuses and followed this by winning the New Hampshire primary of his party . |
| 19 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 20 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 21 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 22 | National park officer , Alan Jones , said the memorial fund will be used to maintain Cader Idris , the mountain which Dr Hughes first climbed at the age of four . |
| 23 | Their presence in London first developed following the relaxation of exchange control in 1958 and has grown rapidly since . |
| 24 | The name of Granville Penn first appears in the Odiham Society minutes of 5 August 1789 , as a subscriber to this farriery fund . |
| 25 | Smith first came across the Academy 's prize problem ( Box B ) when browsing through their Comptes Rendus in February 1882 , though the problem had been posed almost a year earlier . |
| 26 | The complete version of this article by Lila Tidwell first appeared in the Bangkok Post . |
| 27 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 28 | Since Evans first dug at the site in 1900 archaeological work has largely concentrated on revealing the remains of the palace of King Minos and other buildings of the extraordinary Minoan civilisation . |