Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 2 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 3 | If the borrower should default , the investor has legal recourse to the bank that made the first acceptance . |
| 4 | The pattern shop was a haven of relative peace and quiet , reminiscent of cottage industry , a place where carpenters fashioned the wooden shapes that contributed the first stage of the moulding process . |
| 5 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 6 | The second XB-70 ( 62–207 , tail number 20207 ) flew on July 17 , 1965 , with many of the ‘ bugs ’ that plagued the first example ironed-out and exceeded Mach 1.4 at 42,000 feet on the first flight . |
| 7 | It was tiredness that finished the First Church . |
| 8 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 9 | If grey was the colour that characterized the first phase of my time at Harwich , blue characterizes this next phase . |
| 10 | So that on er if you look at the crew picture this is the crew that flew the first mission to Gdynia , Poland except kneeling the second man from the left is , he did not go , I flew the co-pilot position . |
| 11 | In 1841 , when the Great North of England Railway opened up for coal traffic , it was a Kitching engine that pulled the first train . |
| 12 | I vividly remember the familiar scent of sawdust that perfumed the first hug . |
| 13 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 14 | Mike Newell also weighed in with two , but it was the awesome , all-round power of Shearer that smashed the First Division club 's hopes of Coca-Cola Cup glory . |
| 15 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 16 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 17 | of personal standards ’ that accompanied the first affair , the warning bells are beginning to sound . |
| 18 | In that sense , Huxley suggested , evolution had no more to do with theism than had the first book of Euclid . |
| 19 | Suzie Chamfer demanded during the animated dormitory chatter that characterised the first night of the new term at the larger boarding school to which at least half their class at Great Stourford had progressed en bloc . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But when Mr Cheng looked at his papers and asked the first question , Hassan closed his eyes . |
| 22 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 23 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |
| 24 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 25 | He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 . |
| 26 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
| 27 | Queen Elizabeth II paid an official nine-day visit to the USA starting on May 14 , and became the first United Kingdom sovereign to address the US Congress , meeting in joint session on May 16 . |
| 28 | In the following years the population in the areas of West Bowling and Horton increased enormously with the growth of the worsted industry and the building of new steam-powered mills , so that in November 1881 Canon Motler established St Joseph 's as a new parish and became the first parish priest himself . |
| 29 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 30 | He made his name as mayor of West Berlin in 1957-66 , was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 , and became the first SPD Chancellor in 1969 [ see p. 23618 ] . |