Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And subsequent tradition , a posteriori , will proclaim Simon Peter the first Bishop of Rome and the founder of the papacy . |
| 2 | but you 're on about something else , you said the first thing I 'd do , that 's got nothing to do with Harold Wilson the first thing I if I were in power |
| 3 | The ‘ baby-boomers ’ , generally liberal in social matters but not particularly engaged in Democratic politics , saw in Mr Clinton the first president who had shared their experiences . |
| 4 | Having received that payment , the plaintiff handed over to Samuel Revill the first note and endorsed on the second — the note for £110.13s.4d. — ‘ received on account of Samuel Revill £47.1s.4d. ; this sum , with the amount of the first note , make £100 . ’ |
| 5 | T. D. The first time I saw a football was when a caseball hit a horse in the face , and the horse reared up . |
| 6 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 7 | Ireland will go to New Zealand with Derek McAleese the first choice and Peter Russell the back-up . |
| 8 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 9 | Behind Lord John the first beam of sunlight struck like a golden lance across the world 's rim . |
| 10 | When Sarah got back to the attic bedroom in Newcastle Place the first thing she did was open the window , letting in damp , wintry air . |
| 11 | The French minister of industry , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Thursday announced that the French government has paid SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV the first part of the $466m in research and development aid it agreed to pay over five years — the Italian government is supposed to pay the same amount over the same period : ‘ I have signed with SGS-Thomson a contract for a multi-year development effort in France ; the sums for 1993 , $83m from both sides , have been paid , ’ he said ; a spokeswoman for SGS-Thomson in Paris said she had not yet been able to confirm Strauss-Kahn 's assertion ; the separate recapitalisation , which Brussels recently approved , is still conditional on a firm decision being taken on the Italian side , and would be effected in three payments — $227m split evenly between the two partners and an identical payment three months later ; the third payment of $455m is set to be made in 1995 . |
| 12 | Nowhere seemed to be safe from the searching French guns ; during the first days of March one regiment lost more men while behind the lines in reserve than during its assault on Haumont Wood the first day of the offensive . |
| 13 | Its founder , Duke Boleslav II made his sister Mlada the first abbess . |
| 14 | On board the MV Thorhavn the first officer was from Helsinki . |
| 15 | Castleford ..... 20 New Zealand .... 22 A TRY five minutes from the end by Kurt Sherlock , the former All-Black centre , brought New Zealand the first victory of their tour at Wheldon Road last night . |
| 16 | At Old Windsor the first group of five were Pavelka/Gots , Jannis/Jannis , Valerosi/Rossi , Ballard/Slater and Williams/Martin . |
| 17 | Baker 's principal lieutenant on Capitol Hill was Max Friedersdorf the first head of the new administration 's Congressional liaison office . |