Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun prp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | English scribes were to be found living in Paris in the first quarter of the fourteenth century . |
| 2 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 3 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 4 | On April 11 the chair of the Knesset immigration committee , Michael Kleiner , expressed concern over the fall in the number of Soviet Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel during the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 5 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 6 | The Conservatives , fighting in Ulster for the first time in 70 years , failed to win any seats . |
| 7 | Despite an intensification of fighting in Kashmir in the first half of 1990 talks with India continued , with the fourth round completed in April 1991 . |
| 8 | The son of a professor , Boomer became interested in golf when he watched the six-times Open Champion Harry Vardon , whose birthplace he shared , playing in Jersey during the First World War . |
| 9 | Cézanne 's intensely ‘ painterly ’ art with its brilliant use of colour and its mysterious deformations , which suggested a range of new pictorial concepts , was a source of inspiration for almost all the significant young painters working in Europe during the first quarter of the twentieth century . |
| 10 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |