Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 2 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 3 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 4 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 5 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 6 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 7 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 8 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 9 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 10 | Kept in training as a four-year-old , Pebbles won the Trusthouse Forte Mile at Sandown Park , was second in the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Royal Ascot , and then became the first filly ever to win the Eclipse , beating subsequent Arc winner Rainbow Quest by two lengths . |
| 11 | INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE , 1987 Nouvel 's greatest triumph to date was also the first of President Mitterrand 's ‘ Grands Projets ’ and subsequently became the first building in a Western country to receive an Aga Khan Award . |
| 12 | Fearing the worst , he stepped forward and reluctantly pushed the first door wide open , fully expecting to see a sprawled , lifeless body . |
| 13 | One of the girls was much bigger than the other but neither survived the first hour in their new world . |
| 14 | Andrew Wadling was forced to pull out , and Terry Dowsett and Steve Kerns replaced him in the number three seed position , but neither survived the first round . |