Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home secretary , William Lamb , second Viscount Melbourne , and many other landowners were anxious to stifle any revival of agrarian disorder , and the men of Tolpuddle became their first victims . |
| 2 | The new Earl of Torrington faced his first challenge on 21 June , when a French squadron 75 strong , with 6 frigates and 20 fireships , was sighted off the Lizard , moving up channel as if to blockade the Thames . |
| 3 | The new drum corps of McNeillstown scored their first success of the season by winning best drums with the band gaining third overall placing . |
| 4 | In 1938 , just before Huggins reported on the treatment of prostatic cancer , Goodman and Gilman 's celebrated textbook of pharmacology made its first appearance . |
| 5 | President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt paid his first visit to the emirate since the end of the Gulf war , on June 18 . |
| 6 | A turning-point was reached in the life of Magnus in 1098 when King Magnus Barelegs ( or ‘ Barefoot ’ ) of Norway led his first major military expedition against the British Isles . |
| 7 | In August 1949 the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe held its first session in Strasbourg . |
| 8 | In June the Private Art Dealers Association of America published its first directory of members . |
| 9 | The House of Representatives held its first session on May 26 , electing Yasin Said Numan ( hitherto Prime Minister of South Yemen ) as its Speaker and also choosing a three-member presidium . |
| 10 | THE four Lincolnshire farmers who financed Jim Payne 's first season as a professional saw their faith repaid in Majorca yesterday when the 22-year-old from Sandilands scored his first European Tour victory . |
| 11 | Rideout a £500,000 early season signing from Rangers notched his first Premier League goal with a soaring header to seal a 1-0 win and move Everton out of the bottom three . |
| 12 | the prodrive subaru team from Banbury scored their first big international win at the weekend … |
| 13 | On Sept. 12 the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( RJO ) in Beirut made its first formal announcement that it was holding British hostage Jackie Mann , kidnapped in Beirut in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , while Islamic Jihad issued a statement welcoming the releases and accompanied by a photograph of United States hostage , Terry Anderson . |
| 14 | A £13 million scheme to create an imaginative river-front office development in York gained its first ground in March when the Lord Mayor of York , Councillor Bernard Bell climbed aboard a JCB to cut the first sod . |
| 15 | Legislation to allow Nazi war criminals to be put on trial passed its first reading in the Commons . |
| 16 | Meanwhile in 1772 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew engaged its first professional plant collector , Francis Masson , and packed him off to South Africa from where he duly introduced a great number of exotic plants , at least two of which , Zantedeschia erathiopica and Amaryllis belladonna , are still grown in Trust gardens in warmer areas to this day . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the British national championships at Newcastle saw their first upset when the England international Martin Bodimeade fell 9-5 , 9-2 , 9-3 in the second round to the Scottish No.2 , Colin Keith . |
| 18 | At the end of February , Women for Socialism held their first Conference , with the declared aim of discussing how to build a socialist-feminist movement . |
| 19 | His search for Tess took him first to Flintcomb-Ash , where he discovered she had never used her married name . |
| 20 | He began pony racing and as his father actively encouraged him , he naturally progressed to horses and by coincidence landed his first winner on his first ride — Final Assault on the Flat at Naas in March 1983 . |
| 21 | The Artisans , now a year old , were already flourishing and by December held their first Artisans ' Dinner , at the Imperial Hotel . |