Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 23 , 1989 , Mgr Jozef Kowalczyk arrived in Warsaw as the first Vatican nuncio to Poland since 1945 . |
| 2 | SANTA SPECIALS which are a great source of revenue for many railway societies throughout the British Isles arrived in Dublin for the first time on Sunday , December 6th . |
| 3 | He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War , came home in 1916 to transfer to an infantry regiment . |
| 4 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 5 | In July , because of the new Soviet approach , Khruschev , Bulganin , Eisenhower , Eden ( Churchill had now retired ) and France 's Edgar Faure met in Geneva for the first summit of East-West leaders since Potsdam , exactly ten years before . |
| 6 | The base rate rise is also certain to hit sales of new cars , which fell in September for the first time in 18 months , according to new figures released yesterday . |
| 7 | Thus a limited constitution with a representative body , the Duma appeared in Russia for the first time . |