Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are fears of reprisals after Wright was involved in a controversial coin-throwing incident at Highbury in the first leg . |
| 2 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 3 | McDonald 's two-over-par round of 70 at Banff , coupled with a 69 at Fraserburgh in the first round , gave him a one-over aggregate of 139 and the Uniroyal Quaich for the first time at the age of 39 . |
| 4 | Rosalind Plowright , singing at ENO for the first time in eight years , is an Elisabeth de Valois of aptly regal appearance , though her initially expressive line showed increasing signs of strain . |
| 5 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 6 | This Meeting , taking also into Consideration the numbers of Complaints against makers & sellers of yearn in Isla , hereby appoint that a Mercat for yearn shall be held at Bowmore on the first Tuesday of March yearly , and on such other days as they afterwards shall appoint , And hereby ordain the Clerk to make advertisments for the different Parish Kirks . |
| 7 | Her life at Remaisnil in the first years had no routine ; she continued to travel regularly around Europe overseeing shops as well as production in Helmond . |
| 8 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 9 | After the race Mrs Fagan was presented with the trophy , a set of three cut glass decanters , by Mrs Alan Munns , whose husband is managing director of Munns who were sponsoring a race at Ascot for the first time . |
| 10 | It was the following year that the ghost was seen at Althorp for the first time . |
| 11 | United won the game at Molineux in the first half . |
| 12 | He looked at McAllister for the first time since she had begun to help him , and saw her strained white face , the eyes enormous in it . |
| 13 | I had heard that you were staying at the farm , ’ Claudine stated , condescending to look at Jenna for the first time . |
| 14 | New Zealand 's quarrel with France over the Rainbow Warrior incident was formally ended when a French naval ship docked at Auckland for the first time in almost six years . |
| 15 | If you were lucky enough to be invited for * Eight at Number Eight' , you would sit at the dining table under the inscrutable gaze of Duncan Grant 's tabby-cat ; this cat was painted at Charleston during the First World War , and bought by the Berkeleys many years later for £75 from the Lefevre Gallery . |
| 16 | The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres , part of the array of accords reached by the Allies at Versailles after the First World War , encouraged the Kurds like the Armenians to hope that their aspirations for some form of statehood might be fulfilled when the Ottoman empire was dismembered . |
| 17 | The most important of these was at Amsterdam for the first meeting of the World Council of Churches 1948 . |
| 18 | He hit out at Wilko for the first time ( ‘ is there a law against me and Gorden Strachen playing in the same team ’ ) and admitted that he was unsure of his future at Leeds but will not ask for a transfer . |
| 19 | He played in six series against England and only in the last , in 1963 , did he fail with the bat ; other big scores included 191 not out , again at Nottingham , carrying his bat to help save the third Test of 1957 , and 197 not out at Barbados in the first match of 1959–60 again to ensure a draw after a big England innings . |
| 20 | Plans to make this the theme of the 1993 rights meeting follows the decision of the fair organisers to allocate electronic publishing a special area of its own at Frankfurt for the first time this year . |
| 21 | THE CRIES were heard again at Edgbaston during the first Test . |
| 22 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |