Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 2 | THE QUESTION of just who would even want to be a partner with the US was underlined last night as the American Administration headed for default for the first time in its history . |
| 3 | ‘ An order under section 6(2) requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants to pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or , alternatively , to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct for the purpose of restoring persons who entered into transactions with the first defendant in the course of contravention of section 3 by the first defendant to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into . |
| 4 | The public 's political knowledge appears to have increased ; the number of respondents who were able to name their own MP correctly rose from 34% in the first survey to 43% in the last . |
| 5 | ( Hey recorded as Key , for instance ) or by the choice of alternative Christian names ( e.g. the second one used in preference to the first ) or by evasion of the system before penalties were introduced in 1875 . |
| 6 | Pouch excision , which occurred in 30% of the first 50 patients was undertaken in only 4% in the last 68 patients . |
| 7 | I used to listen for hours about her girlhood in Sheffield : smoking out of the window ; the young soldier she visited in hospital in the First World War , who gave her his rosary and went off and was killed ; of her suitors ; the fuss surrounding her affair with my father , who was much older than her ( and already married , though this she never told me ) . |
| 8 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 9 | Sell on a strike they say , so no doubt the time to sell 3DO Co Inc 's shares are as soon as the first marketable interactive multimedia home entertainment centres to the company 's standard are announced : the shares , floated at $15 , rose to $20.125 on the first day of trading going to $24 on the second day . |
| 10 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 11 | Orders in the UK rose by 15% in the first five months . |
| 12 | John S. Herold , a consultancy based in Connecticut , says its index of share prices of large companies producing oil and gas in America rose by 12% during the first quarter . |
| 13 | Houston-based Compaq says its sales rose by 10% during the first three months of this year . |
| 14 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 15 | The UK operation came under scrutiny in the first investigation , but not in the latest formal investigation . |
| 16 | In this phase , too , the ideological obsessions , the immorality and criminality of the regime , and — as Germany came under pressure for the first time — the draconian repression of the police state , were becoming more and more evident , and could increasingly be recognized by the ordinary civilian population . |
| 17 | More evidence that the recession may have bottomed out came with news of the first rise in manufacturing output in 26 months . |
| 18 | Cultures , especially the patriarchal cultures instilled into children in the first four or five years of their lives , had now distorted an essentially benign human nature . |
| 19 | But another kind of question is how the complicated thing came into existence in the first place . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Apple is predicting that it will have at least 70% of Macintosh applications recoded in time for the first batch of volume PowerPCs to hit the streets in 1993 , using AT&T Bell Laboratories spin-off , the Holmdel , New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc , to do the recompiling . |
| 21 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 22 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 23 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 24 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 25 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 26 | For , after less than 20 wickets in four lean years with Derbyshire , Taylor was part of the Staffordshire team that came to Northampton in the first round of the 1990 NatWest Cup to be plundered by Allan Lamb and company for the record total of 360-2 . |
| 27 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 28 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 29 | We acted as Dealer on the first Sterling Commercial Paper programme with a syndicated bank guarantee . |
| 30 | On Nov. 23 , 1989 , Mgr Jozef Kowalczyk arrived in Warsaw as the first Vatican nuncio to Poland since 1945 . |