Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the cynics had been silenced and the first customer Griffiths burbled their way out of TVR 's Blackpool factory , the rest of the sports car world stopped and stared . |
| 2 | The agents now had a bond with , and the Committee had met and the first draft of the workings of the Group had been brought out . |
| 3 | BR local officials attended and the first meeting of the association group was scheduled for Saturday 30th May to get the whole thing properly under way . |
| 4 | It 's the worst sports programme I have ever seen and the first I have ever turned off . |
| 5 | This advice was accepted and the first such Convention was concluded with France on 2 February 1922 . |
| 6 | The motion was unanimously adopted and the first meeting of the syndicat took place on 4 November 1882 when twenty-two houses were represented . |
| 7 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 8 | Collections for medical supplies were also undertaken and the first British Medical Unit of doctors and nurses , organized by the Spanish Medical Aid Committee , left for Spain as early as August 1936 . |
| 9 | Radio transmission had advanced and the first trans-Atlantic broadcast took place in 1925 , but only the following year , John Logie Baird was able to demonstrate television . |
| 10 | But they have to in our garden because erm I know the first she was a the one we 've got and the first day me husband brought her he went up to fetch her out the kennel and she sort of saw this cat and it 's a |
| 11 | Operation Gold , as it was called by the CIA , was approved and the first task was to establish a suitable cover story . |
| 12 | This has recently been approved and the first meeting which will set a research agenda will be held in July 1989 . |
| 13 | On 8 July 1964 this airport was officially opened and the first commercial flight arrived in Madeira , bringing eighty passengers and taking away sixty-six . |
| 14 | A Fund was launched at the Service to endow educational travel in the Mediterranean lands which Mr. Johnston had known and loved so well ; over £3,000 was raised and the first recipient of the award was D.S. Hallas . |
| 15 | Once it has sprouted and the first few leaves have developed to about an inch , it should be removed and transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 16 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 17 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 18 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 19 | This purchase of a ‘ shell ’ company was the first time that the manoeuvre had been executed and the first time that a bookmaking company had been floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 20 | The Umayyads were finally overthrown and the first Abbasid , Abul-Abbas , took the throne . |
| 21 | Rolling stock deliveries have now commenced and the first diesel and electric locos are already on site , along with a number of heavy goods vehicle shuttles . |
| 22 | Once one team had defended the fort , the sides were changed and the first team then led the attack . |
| 23 | the first sheet has not been changed and the first sheet shows the base resource budget which you are being asked to recommend on line twenty one and then it shows a number of savings which can be achieved through efficiency and volume changes . |
| 24 | Prayers were said , water was poured down parched throats , dates were devoured and the first Ramadan feast began . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the pretty S3 has continued to sell in astonishingly high numbers , while the Griffith 's rear suspension — the car 's only genuine weak link — is said to have been improved and the first Chimaeras are due out soon . |
| 26 | The closing date for entries is 14 January 1993 , after which a draw will be held and the first three correct entries to be drawn will receive the prize of a year 's free Friends membership plus the book of your choice . |
| 27 | Jesus had not returned and the first generation Christians were beginning to die . |
| 28 | In a band 's career , two records are more important that any others ; the first ever released and the first on a major label . |
| 29 | Newly refurbished and the first to show off the new logo , the Bath Road store 's being hailed as a model for Co-Ops to come — proof , says the company , that it 's serious about shedding that fuddy duddy image once . |