Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 3 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 4 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 5 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 6 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 7 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 8 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 9 | All 12 runners , including defending Sprint champion Sheikh Albadou , Rodrigo De Triano , Dr Devious and Selkirk , failed to reach the first three . |
| 10 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 11 | He was the reigning world champion and he 'd won the first two races of the season . |
| 12 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 13 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 14 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 15 | ‘ It would come out I 'd got a first at London University . |
| 16 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 17 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 18 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 19 | Given that she 'd nothing in particular to gain , the chances seemed to favour the first of these options . |
| 20 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 21 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 22 | Somehow he 'd scored the first small , barely discernible victory . |
| 23 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 24 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 25 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 26 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 27 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 28 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 29 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 30 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |