Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle .
2 Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored .
3 As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics .
4 He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward .
5 Early in 1938 two summations of his work were published : Essays Ancient and Modern in March and , a month later , Collected Poems 1909–1935 which included the first publication of " Burnt Norton " .
6 In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks .
7 In 1698 , Martin published ‘ A Late Voyage to St. Kilda , the Remotest of all the Hebrides ’ , and five years later in 1703 there appeared the first edition of ‘ A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland ’ .
8 In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation .
9 In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin .
10 Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts .
11 Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ .
12 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration .
13 In 1864 he received a first class in classical honour moderations , and then in 1867 a first in literae humaniores , even though he was said to have read no more than half the required books .
14 In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales .
15 In 1938 we began the first School Broadcasts for the province , and I was in charge of production .
16 In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation .
17 In 1868 he founded the first lodge in England , ‘ Columbia ’ lodge no. 1 .
18 In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago .
19 In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK .
20 In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 .
21 In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution .
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