Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 2 | In the winter of 1976 , Rod Johnstone , who started out as a schoolteacher before taking up naval architecture , designed and built the first J/24 in his garage . |
| 3 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 4 | Donald Healey , who designed and built the first Healeys in the 1940s , also worked on the new design details . |
| 5 | The new measures supplemented and renewed the first , interim austerity package introduced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] , most of whose provisions were due to expire on July 1 . |
| 6 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal held that both claims could not succeed and disallowed the first ( that being the smaller claim ) . |
| 8 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 9 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 10 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 11 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 12 | And we developed and built the first air-launched anti-tank missile , as well as the first launch-and-leave imaging infrared homing air-to-surface missile . |
| 13 | Rupert Moon started and finished the first , bagging his first Test try in only his second international , while new cap Simon Hill went one better when he claimed a kick and chase try after only seven minutes on the international stage . |
| 14 | For in 1904 Lincoln Bush patented the Bush shed and installed the first at the Hoboken station of the Delaware , Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1906 . |