Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 2 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 3 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 4 | After he is wounded in this staged hunt , perhaps she could be seen to nurse him daily with iodine and mercurochrome , out of remorse , but in the process establishing the first physical contact . |
| 5 | Contemporary idealism , however , dates from the period following the First World War when , partly as a reaction to the horrors of the war , it briefly achieved prominence as an approach to global politics , influencing academics and politicians . |
| 6 | This work , now destroyed or altered , was remarkably innovative , the architect creating the first great baroque ensemble in England , combining architecture , carving ( by Grinling Gibbons , q.v. ) , and painting ( by Antonio Verrio , q.v. ) in a grand and sumptuous suite of staterooms . |
| 7 | The second part of this procedure ( 8.2 Archiving ) will be carried out between 08.00 and 08.30 on the morning following the first part of the procedure . |
| 8 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 9 | In the boutique near the admin bulding the first person they saw was Mrs Richards . |
| 10 | Shortly after the breakfast party , perhaps the same evening , perhaps the next morning , the bridegroom 's mother would make her way to the home of the bride carrying the first load of treasure . |
| 11 | The date governing the first instalment can not be sooner than 14 days after the issue of the bill . |
| 12 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 13 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 14 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 15 | The examples listed here were all from hoards , and included a dish depicting the First Labour : the hero strangling the Nemean Lion . |
| 16 | The pre-head is composed of all the unstressed syllables in a tone-unit preceding the first stressed syllable . |
| 17 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 18 | In New York , meanwhile , the UN Security Council was expected today to pass unanimously a resolution establishing the first war crimes tribunal since 1945-49 . |
| 19 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 20 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 21 | The Oldham defence was caught napping when Paul Rideout 's cross was flicked on by John Ebbrell and the unmarked Cottee lost no time blazing a first time shot past Paul Gerrard from six yards . |
| 22 | The Oldham defence was caught napping when Paul Rideout 's cross was flicked on by John Ebbrell — and the unmarked Cottee lost no time blazing a first time shot past Paul Gerrard from six yards . |
| 23 | This means that an applicant seeking a first interim order in care proceedings , whether or not it follows upon an emergency protection order , should file and serve on all respondents before the hearing statements of the evidence to be relied upon . |
| 24 | The applicant sought judicial review and an order directing the first bench to determine the information and relied upon section 9(2) of the Magistrates Courts Act 1980 . |
| 25 | sitting as a deputy judge of the Queen 's Bench Division granted the plaintiff in an action for breach of an agreement embodied in a Tomlin order , Jean-Pierre Irtelli , an injunction restraining the first defendants , Renato Squatriti and Livia Vidor ( trading as L'Aiglon ) ( ‘ the defendants ’ ) , ‘ by themselves or their servants and agents from selling disposing or otherwise dealing with seeking to sell dispose or deal with the premises at 220 , Westbourne Grove , London W.11 . ’ |