Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lille 's mayor confirmed an agreement with Tour de France organisers for Lille to stage the prologue on 2 July followed by the first stage to Armentieres the next day . |
| 2 | 2 Gustave belonged to the first railway generation in France ; and he hated the invention . |
| 3 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 4 | Following violence between ANC and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) militants in the township of Bekkersdal , west of Johannesburg , where at least 11 people died in the first week of February , there was a joint peace appeal by the four main black political organisations . |
| 5 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 6 | Ironically , given the state of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe and the avowed reformist intentions of the BCP , when Lukanov 's proposals for the composition of his government were approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 8 Bulgaria acquired for the first time in its history an all-communist government . |
| 7 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 8 | During an official visit to France in December 1989 Kaysone confirmed for the first time the death of the former King of Laos , Savang Vatthana . |
| 9 | Two gunmen went to the first floor and opened fire on two men in the salon , fatally injuring Mr Hughes . |