Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 2 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 3 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 4 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |
| 5 | It says vendors took around eighteen months to bring out the first XPG3-branded products after its introduction . |
| 6 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 7 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 8 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 9 | The Marines brought in a first , small load of 30 bags of rice and grain to offer the local people as a gesture . |
| 10 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 11 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 12 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 13 | POST Office workers put up a first class performance blasting round Britain 's fastest motor racing circuits in a Royal Mail delivery van . |
| 14 | The housekeeper brought in the first dish . |
| 15 | Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system . |
| 16 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 17 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 18 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 19 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 20 | But with a nation glued to its sets , Hendry handed out the first of many tutorial beatings , which heralded a largely unproductive 2½ seasons for Wattana . |
| 21 | Shanks took out the first of several patents for alkali manufacture in the spring of 1841 , for improvements in the manufacture of carbonate of soda . |
| 22 | An area stretching from Oxford Street to Euston Station was sealed off and bomb squad officers carried out a first controlled explosion at 10.10pm . |
| 23 | The pair are to leave their families at their Wirral homes and motor hundreds of miles in a race to bring back the first bottles of Beaujolais to Liverpool . |
| 24 | ITV is involved in a race with the BBC to bring out the first film drama of his life . |
| 25 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 26 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 27 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 28 | Newry only had a couple of first half chances , with big Barry Hunter cancelling out the first when he intercepted a Gary Hughes shot . |
| 29 | When you shoot the Repeater Pistol work out the first shot normally . |
| 30 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |