Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here that the Germans experienced their first unpleasant surprise of the campaign . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 4 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |
| 5 | Owers played his first full game for three months in the derby win over Middlesbrough and then gave boss Malcolm Crosby a welcome cup final headache . |
| 6 | The Academy of Culinary Arts launched its first residential course programme . |
| 7 | Haslemere Reserves gained their first league win since January 11th and two vital points in their fight to avoid relegation . |
| 8 | It will be noted that 68 of the authors published their first related paper in the Scottish Journal of Geology . |
| 9 | Sixty-eight of the authors published their first related paper in the Scottish Journal of Geology . |
| 10 | In Hong Kong yesterday officials of the Group of Seven ( G7 ) industrialised countries began their first meeting of a weekend session with the discussion believed to focus on emergency aid for Russia . |
| 11 | The Australians won their first VC of the campaign in a tank battle outside a village called Marjayoun in the south of the country which is now the headquarters of Israel 's proxy South Lebanon Army militia . |
| 12 | On April 27th-29th , the two countries held their first almost-official talks , in Singapore . |
| 13 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 14 | At around the same time , Orkney Islands Council officials made their first attempt to remove the Reporter to Orkney 's Children 's Panel , Mrs Katherine Kemp , from office . |
| 15 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 16 | While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success . |
| 17 | TEA ROPATI grabbed his first drop goal in three seasons to sneak St Helens into this morning 's second-round draw of the Regal Trophy . |
| 18 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 19 | Millions of television viewers got their first glimpse of the band when their photograph was featured on the Top Of The Pops run-down four days later . |
| 20 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 21 | The orphans started their first day in England with a hearty breakfast . |
| 22 | After the cover had popped off on 31 January , the infrared detectors recorded their first observation : a fluctuating signal due to the receding cover as it spiralled out of the telescope 's view . |
| 23 | INSTONIANS completed their first season back in Section One at the weekend having achieved their objective of staying in the top flight . |
| 24 | Celebrating colour : 70 years after the Scottish Colourists held their first joint exhibition in London , paintings by Peploe , Hunter , Cadell and Fergusson are being shown at the MacRobert Gallery , Stirling University , writes Allen Wright . |
| 25 | Sweeping down the long hill , past a blackened church with its sooty gravestones among the trees , Stanley and his passengers got their first sight of the problem . |
| 26 | The top two , St Johnstone and Partick Thistle , maintained their unbeaten records although Saints dropped their first home point this season to Morton at McDiarmid Park . |
| 27 | Bingham acknowledged that his southern neighbours deserved their first appearance in the finals after beating the North for the first time in four attempts . |
| 28 | Rideout a £500,000 early season signing from Rangers notched his first Premier League goal with a soaring header to seal a 1-0 win and move Everton out of the bottom three . |
| 29 | STAFFORD RANGERS took their first Football League scalp in 18 years last night by beating Lincoln City . |
| 30 | So the little Blackpool girls got their first taste of the world of entertainment . |