Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Coburn got the commission to write the first story by a notable stroke of good fortune . |
| 2 | In March 1770 Mozart received a commission to write the first opera for the following carnival season in Milan . |
| 3 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 4 | She became the elfin presence , the luck charm , the sweet pet of the forest : and when she was sixteen , she met William , four years her senior , a carpenter just out of his apprenticeship in Lorton — the next village on from Buttermere — who came every week to make the first selection of wood from her father 's stock . |
| 5 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 6 | The examples listed here were all from hoards , and included a dish depicting the First Labour : the hero strangling the Nemean Lion . |
| 7 | This in turn made the looking harder , but eased the pressure to accept the first thing that came along . |
| 8 | It took a while to identify the first two but we 've finally managed to do that . |
| 9 | They took an hour to reach the first town , and another hour to find the tourist office and fend off boys with motor bikes who rapped on the windows . |
| 10 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |
| 11 | It had the right to annul the first round of voting , if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities , and to organize new elections within two months . |