Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 2 | BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers . |
| 3 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 4 | Despite this , Bennett led seven Hudson aircraft , with captain , co-pilot and wireless operator and made the first formation delivery flight across the Atlantic in November 1940 ; similar formation flights followed at regular intervals . |
| 5 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 6 | In mid-February 1990 the Powers announced that German flights to Berlin would also be allowed and on Aug. 5 a plane made the first Lufthansa flight to a Berlin airport since 1945 landing at Schönefeld airport ( on the outskirts of East Berlin ) . |
| 7 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 8 | So ( v ) what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed . |
| 9 | But ( vii ) people do say things , using the first person singular , present tense , of psychological verbs , which are sometimes true , sometimes false . |
| 10 | Is what was said earlier — what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed — true of ‘ I know ’ ? |
| 11 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 12 | Statistics were anslysed using the FIRST statistics package ( Serious Statistical Software , Willaston , South Wirral ) . |
| 13 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 14 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 15 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 16 | The celebrations that marked United 's third major Cup — four if you count the European Super Cup — in two calendar years could just be a rehearsal if they land the First Division title in the next three weeks . |
| 17 | They will lease the first team pitch and clubhouse back from the buyers next season and expect to move to new premises in 1993 . |
| 18 | The Flying Scotsman , on a run from London to Scotland in the 1930's , became the first steam engine ever to reach 100 miles an hour . |
| 19 | Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years . |
| 20 | On pole after setting a lap record during the qualifying session , Mansell became the first rookie driver to win his first Indy grand prix since the late Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966 . |
| 21 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 22 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 23 | Rhodes Music Radio ( RMR ) became the first campus radio station to broadcast live , when it transmitted to Grahamstown during the Standard Bank National Festival in July . |
| 24 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 25 | Mr Scargill , in an editorial in a special election edition of his union journal The Miner , became the first union leader to issue a series of specific demands during a campaign in which most TUC figures have adopted a low profile . |
| 26 | Barry Abrook became the first UK skater to spin a 540 and make it . |
| 27 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 28 | N.A. Mallender became the first England bowler to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut since N.G.B. Cook ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | Once again , the backbone of the innings came from Lamb and Botham , and just before the close on the first day Lamb became the first England batsman since Barrington in 1960 to score centuries in consecutive Test innings against West Indies . |
| 30 | In 1893 , Drewy Stoddart became the first Middlesex batsman to score a century in each innings of a county match — carrying his bat for 195 not out ( out of 327 ) and 124 against Nottinghamshire at Lord 's . |