Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 2 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 3 | Luce checked her first impulse , which had been to tear herself free . |
| 4 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 5 | Peter Watkins made his first feature , Privilege ( 1967 ) , for an American company , after his astonishing depiction of what would happen if a nuclear bomb fell on Kent , The War Game ( 1965 ) , had been banned by the BBC . |
| 6 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 7 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 8 | It was here that the Germans experienced their first unpleasant surprise of the campaign . |
| 9 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 10 | In 1949 , during a stay at Belle Ile , Kelly produced his first Abstract works , taking as his starting point a window frame or patches of moss on a wall . |
| 11 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 12 | Legislation to allow Nazi war criminals to be put on trial passed its first reading in the Commons . |
| 13 | Cincinnati got their first win of the season but only by 23–21 against Cleveland . |
| 14 | Ambassador : Following his time with Wilson and Callaghan , Sir Patrick got his first embassy , Luxembourg , in 1977 . |
| 15 | Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire . |
| 16 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 17 | BRIAN Little got his first taste of League football by watching Hartlepool in action at the Victoria Ground in the Seventies . |
| 18 | Mond made his first steps in the business that would one day help form ICI , by finding better ways to make ‘ soda ash , ’ sodium carbonate . |
| 19 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |
| 20 | Sarah caught it first , being nearest , and she soon forgot to mope for her disconsolate Sir George ( who had seen them off with very ill grace ) . |
| 21 | Communism found its first means of expression in the various international organizations ( the Internationals ) that were established by Marx and Engels and their followers from the 1860s on . |
| 22 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 23 | In 1960 the TBC commissioned its first audience survey . |
| 24 | By May 1979 , when Raybestos made its first attempt to dump at Barnahely , the site was blocked by residents and the compromise had apparently failed . |
| 25 | Bella got it first . |
| 26 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 27 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 28 | Ten years ago on 25 June the Joint European Torus ( JET ) experiment produced its first plasma . |
| 29 | Mr Singh asked his first question : ‘ Would it be next September ? ’ |
| 30 | Early in 1993 , LASMO announced its first discovery in Algeria , in the productive Ghadames Basin . |