Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 2 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 3 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 4 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 5 | But Nicholas Knight and Don Topley got the target down to six off the last over , and Knight hit the first ball into the crowd . |
| 6 | He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star . |
| 7 | He quirked a dark brow , his eyes lingering with open appreciation on her slim figure in the silky pale green dress , and Fran felt the first whisper of heat run along her veins . |
| 8 | Between them , Whitaker and Coburn devised the first episode 's opening in an English school . |
| 9 | Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner refused to declare an emergency , under which a 60-day cooling-off period , would have been imposed and Bush became the first President to reject the advice of the National Mediation Board when he declined to intervene . |
| 10 | And Britain announced the first licence awards for North Sea Oil and Gas ’ . |
| 11 | This is when the pattern-cutting started and Amy produced the first calico toile . |
| 12 | Nakabayashi and coworkers reported the first system based on methyl methacrylate , with tributyl borane as initiator and 4-META as bonding comonomer . |
| 13 | The 1750s marked an important transition , as works by such men as Duncombe and Ballard celebrated the achievements of women writers , and Colman and Thornton published the first edition of Poems by Eminent Ladies . |
| 14 | While he was away being x-rayed , Crowe and Rutherford raised the first half-century stand of the match within 80 minutes , scoring faster than in the earlier stages of the game . |
| 15 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |