Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 2 | The curriculum laid down for the first time what pupils should learn in 10 subjects . |
| 3 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 4 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 5 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 6 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 7 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 8 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 10 | ‘ Greed came in for the first time . |
| 11 | If you remember your , from , from your history at school the , the , the first world war the Americans in the historic role of arriving at wars rather late erm came in to the first world war to win it for us erm and after it President Wilson who used to be professor of politics at Princeton , just put that in , er President Wilson created , essentially cos we were all bankrupt at the time as usual er the Americans the only ones who had any money left at the end of the wars , erm President Wilson helped to create the League of Nations , the forerunner of the United Nations but the U S senate refused to ratify the agreement . |
| 12 | Instead , a message came through during the first part of the show that Sigourney loved Julian , and was asking specifically to be seated next to him . |
| 13 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 14 | Sapiens International Corp NV has definitive agreement to acquire SmartStar Corp , the privately-held Goleta , California that came up with the first applications generation language for Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX/VMS , and is now working on object-oriented user interfaces for databases . |
| 15 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 16 | Treleaven strolled out for the first play-off hole , the par-four 10th , and saw off all opposition with a birdie three on the second most difficult hole on the course . |
| 17 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 18 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |
| 19 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 20 | The RPR candidate , Charles Pasqua dropped out after the first round . |
| 21 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 22 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 23 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 24 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 25 | Twenty-eight years ago Liverpool beat Arsenal 3-2 and 20,000 people tuned in to the first edition to hear Kenneth Wolstenholme describe the action . |
| 26 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 27 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 28 | The inclusion of Butler ( Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ) was typical : omitted from the original membership he simply turned up to the first meeting , according to Hugh Thomas , ‘ and of course was allowed to stay … . ’ |
| 29 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 30 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |