Example sentences of "[vb past] the first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 2 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 3 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 4 | It was he who made the first approaches … " |
| 5 | Simon Patiño also made the first purchases of French eighteenth-century furniture and Old Master paintings by the French School areas in which successive generations , including Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , his grandson , would collect as well . |
| 6 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |
| 7 | In December 1988 Blyth 's newly formed British Steel Challenge made the first steps towards prising open the closed shop of big boat ocean racing . |
| 8 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 9 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 10 | Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder . |
| 11 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |
| 12 | Horton believes that Bull , who recently became the first Wolves player to score 200 goals , would be the ideal England partner for Alan Shearer . |
| 13 | Two WGEC pipefitting apprentices became the first apprentices to go offshore . |
| 14 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 15 | In June 1953 , Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest . |
| 16 | In 386 , Priscillian and at least five of his disciples became the first heretics to be executed . |
| 17 | Shehabuddin Ahmed on Dec. 9 appointed the first members of a Council of Advisers , announcing the appointment of the remainder on Dec. 16 . |
| 18 | THE board of Barclays , Britain 's biggest clearing bank , yesterday announced the first moves towards appointing an outside chief executive in a clear response to shareholders ' recent criticism of existing top management . |
| 19 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |
| 20 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 21 | The second HEAO was the Einstein Observatory , which produced the first pictures of astronomical objects at X-ray wavelengths . |
| 22 | Appeals to Bloomsbury House to support job training and applications throw up some curious details : ‘ Ruth needs 2 prs. knickers and 1 apron ’ — she got the first items but not the apron . |
| 23 | Lucien experienced the first inklings of how the Ixmarites might possibly manipulate their own rules for their convenience . |
| 24 | Earlier this month in Tokyo , Unix International Inc demonstrated the first fruits from the publication one year ago of Edition 1 of its Unix System V Common Japanese Environment specifications . |
| 25 | As North later described the first approaches to the Iran idea , Israeli officials talking to Americans in the spring and summer of 1985 , it was a ‘ philosophy ’ rather than an operation . |
| 26 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 27 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |
| 28 | Jonas Salk 's team in California , USA , reported the first results of phase I/II clinical trials with a gp 120-depleted treatment vaccine . |
| 29 | In the country of Giurgiu , to the south of the capital , Ceauşescu himself supervised the first demolitions at the end of July 1988 . |
| 30 | Modern TRANSPORT — workers built the first railways through the ALPS in the 1800's tourism increased due to the rapid improvement in transport . |