Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the country of Giurgiu , to the south of the capital , Ceauşescu himself supervised the first demolitions at the end of July 1988 . |
| 2 | George Stephenson himself drove the first passenger train on Tuesday 27 September 1825 . |
| 3 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 4 | Yet the appeal of crusading was , if anything , even stronger to those aristocratic houses just below the level of the princely : it was , after all , the house of Boulogne which produced the first two rulers of Jerusalem . |
| 5 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 6 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 7 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 8 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 9 | The business is the brainchild of chief executive officer , David Stamm , a co-founder of Daisy Systems and the Intel Corp veteran who designed the first single-chip 8-bit microprocessor . |
| 10 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 11 | Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody has a few thousand to go before he can ever catch Carson … that ca n't be done in jump racing of course … but the new champion is off to a flying start to the new season … two winners on saturday he won the first at Newton Abbot this afternoon |
| 12 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 13 | The course notes which accompanied the first ‘ Beating the Developers ’ course , are available on request . |
| 14 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 15 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 16 | In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O . |
| 17 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
| 18 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 19 | However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World . |
| 20 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 21 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
| 22 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 23 | It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall . |
| 24 | It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening . |
| 25 | Michael Roberts could ride either but sticks to Lyric Fantasy who became the first two-year-old filly to win the Nunthorpe at Yor |
| 26 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 27 | In the gardens there appeared the first signs of spring : leaf-buds reappeared on the bougainvillaea and the poinsettias burst into flower . |
| 28 | On 6 January he attended the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to the trial , and then attended most sittings of the court . |
| 29 | In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ . |
| 30 | With Walter Crane [ q.v. ] and W. A. S. Benson he organized the first arts and crafts exhibition in Crane Street in 1888 . |