Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 2 | InterCity turned in its first profit in 1988–9 , only a year after transitional support was withdrawn . |
| 3 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 4 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston . |
| 6 | SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years . |
| 7 | Then Maggie came across her first human body . |
| 8 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 9 | THE ORPHAN smuggled out of war-torn Bosnia by TV newsman Michael Nicholson spoke of her first days at a British school yesterday and declared : ‘ It is good . ’ |
| 10 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 11 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 12 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's a sadist , ’ said Ricky as the waiter arrived with their first course . |
| 14 | On September 14 , 1989 , the 401st Bomb Group arrived for their first annual reunion to be held in England . |
| 15 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 16 | THE teenager charged in the murder of a German tourist sobbed at his first court appearance last night as police staked out several Miami sites searching for his girlfriend and suspected accomplice . |
| 17 | ‘ Our society needs technical progress , ’ Kohl said in his first policy declaration since his election in March . |
| 18 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 19 | Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day . |
| 20 | BRIAN CLOUGH , the newest freeman of Nottingham , saw Forest 's relegation fears eased with their first win in six games at The Dell last night , thanks to stunning goals from his son , Nigel , and Roy Keane . |
| 21 | No other organisation needed to meet such a rapidly expanding demand for a single product that they had , in effect , to build one new factory every two months , as the BEA did during their first ten years . |
| 22 | Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas . |
| 23 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 24 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
| 25 | Comments began during his first televised match . |
| 26 | I know it 's very short — it started in the Roosevelt era when people looked at his first one hundred days . |
| 27 | Alan 's father died during his first year at Breakspear , leaving him a very wealthy young man . |
| 28 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow wept at her first Thanksgiving holiday without long-time lover Woody Allen , a friend revealed yesterday . |
| 29 | Founded by IBM 's famous Scots-Irish Watsons , Greenock foundered for its first years , until IBM learned that the best people to run a factory in Scotland were usually Scots . |
| 30 | If Leonard appeared in his first book to invite comparisons , now he made statements , claims , and most of all , confessions . |