Example sentences of "[adj] make [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 2 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 3 | Not until 1793 did Sultan Selim III make the first serious effort to establish permanent Turkish diplomatic missions in the main European capitals ; and these were unsuccessful and short-lived . |
| 4 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 5 | Edward IV made a first attempt to remedy the situation within weeks of his brother 's sixteenth birthday , when he gave Richard the land of Robert lord Hungerford , lying mainly in Somerset and Wiltshire . |
| 6 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 7 | It seems to me possible that here in this room we might between us just conceivably be able to make a first … |
| 8 | Those weeks , not seeing him , wondering , too proud to make the first move . |