Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 3 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 4 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 5 | The dancing was still going on too , although Seb thought the playing of the fiddlers lacked the exuberance of the first night . |
| 6 | Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms . |
| 7 | An accountant , in order to stand any chance of a career in corporate finance , must have a good academic record ( 2.1 or better ) at a recognised university ( red brick or Oxbridge ) , must have trained with one of the top accountancy firms , and passed the exams at the first attempt . |
| 8 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 9 | You made the mess in the first place — remember ? ’ |
| 10 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 11 | well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what |
| 12 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 13 | Jim Gardiner made the breakthrough in the first half , then Roddy Collins and Michael Cash finished things off with further goals in the last ten minutes . |
| 14 | Can it be all together coincidence those names , places and events that made the headlines during the First World War have done so again in recent years ? |
| 15 | He was the one who made the running in the first place , and I quite like him . ’ |
| 16 | Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months . |
| 17 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 18 | In 1902 Freeman became the co-author of the first of his fictional works to become well known , The Adventures of Romney Pringle , written under the pseudonym of Clifford Ashdown , and the fruit of Freeman 's collaboration with the physician John James Pitcairn . |
| 19 | Pagan until the tenth century , Gniezno became the seat of the first Polish archbishopric in A.D. 1000 , when the stone , rotunda building there became the Metropolitan Cathedral . |
| 20 | Their most ancient forebears were connections of the echinoderms , but their cousins , much more unexpectedly , became the ancestors of the first of the backboned animals , the vertebrates . |
| 21 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 22 | In slow , careful English , she asked the gentlemen at the first table , ‘ You are ready to order ? ’ |
| 23 | Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth in the first manned satellite , Stalin 's body was unceremoniously removed from the Moscow Mausoleum , counter revolutionaries attempted to overthrow the Castro regime in Cuba and Scotland were drubbed 9–3 at Wembley . |
| 24 | This overlapped the appearance of the first modular construction Class 58 from Doncaster , mechanically similar but theoretically cheaper to maintain . |
| 25 | Following the Budget , National Savings announced the reintroduction of the FIRST Option Bond . |
| 26 | On the heels of Unix System Laboratories ' great China coup ( UX No 411 ) , the Santa Cruz Operation announced the availability of the first Chinese version of SCO Unix in this case SCO Unix V/386 3.2 version 4.0 . |
| 27 | Shortly afterwards the government announced the holding of the first post-liberation elections — municipal elections to take place in April and May of the following year . |
| 28 | The SPA on Sept. 14 announced the names of the first 20 state-owned companies to be fully privatized . |
| 29 | When my Noble Friend er produced the Bill of the first er er case and it went er came to secondary reading , your Lordships did explain in no uncertain terms of the various matters about which your Lordships were concerned . |
| 30 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |