Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grateful club played its first game in over a year last month , but , surprisingly , not in Broomfield and Alexander colours . |
| 2 | In the same year the British Museum acquired its first Swahili manuscript ( MS BL Or . |
| 3 | While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success . |
| 4 | And remember , old Eddie told you first … . ’ |
| 5 | Celebrating colour : 70 years after the Scottish Colourists held their first joint exhibition in London , paintings by Peploe , Hunter , Cadell and Fergusson are being shown at the MacRobert Gallery , Stirling University , writes Allen Wright . |
| 6 | On March 19 the Lebanese army had its first clash with SLA militiamen since the former 's February 1991 deployment in southern Lebanon [ see p. 38025 ] . |
| 7 | Written nearly eighty years before as marauding French forces seized their first tracts of territory in Cochin-China , they reflected his own deep conviction , derived from a totally different experience , in the ultimate supremacy of the spirit of man . |
| 8 | BRITISH COAL launched its first ‘ privatisation ’ move a few days ago . |
| 9 | Old Fishfinger kept his first fish warm with a night light under a tin tray . |
| 10 | One of the most popular activities was the rifle range , where would-be soldiers got their first opportunity to fire real guns . |
| 11 | The roar of the traffic was almost drowned by a furious burst of camera shutters as the assembled Press took their first opportunity of photographing Hannah in an urban situation . |
| 12 | A new high-grade fluorescence spectrophotometer from Hitachi Scientific Instruments made its first appearance . |
| 13 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 14 | During a naval review off Portsmouth in October 1955 , British naval intelligence had their first sight of the new , post-war Russian Navy when the heavy cruiser Sverdlov arrived to take part . |
| 15 | A clinging-to-the-van-sides return joined us in one jostling clamorous mob as we disgorged onto the platform , at which point the jaundiced guard spoke his first and only words . |
| 16 | In Hong Kong yesterday officials of the Group of Seven ( G7 ) industrialised countries began their first meeting of a weekend session with the discussion believed to focus on emergency aid for Russia . |
| 17 | The newly elected 14th central committee held its first plenary session on Oct. 19 , when Jiang Zemin was formally re-elected as party general secretary . |
| 18 | THE Chicago Board of Trade , the world 's largest futures exchange , was slapped by the past this week when its chief regulator lodged its first serious complaint against the exchange , over an episode that took place three years ago . |
| 19 | Following the general election on Sept. 27 the new 341-member Chamber of Deputies and 143-member Senate held their first sessions on Oct. 16 . |
| 20 | In 1830 , the National Association held its first conference . |
| 21 | On Sept. 27 the Little Hural passed its first piece of legislation , a Law on Government Structure . |
| 22 | The Little Hural held its first session on Sept. 13 . |
| 23 | It is reassuring to know that Gallacher was one of the players chosen to represent Scotland when the national team played its first overseas international against France in May 1930 . |
| 24 | A TENTATIVE economic recovery began in the shops last month , when retail sales showed their first year-on-year rise since last September and their strongest increase since May 1992 , the month after the last general election , the Confederation of British Industry claimed yesterday . |
| 25 | The Australian army won their first Victoria Cross of the Second World War in a tank battle against Vichy forces near the south Lebanese town of Marjayoun — which would in 1978 become the headquarters of Israel 's local Christian militia — while in the coastal village of Damour , the future Israeli minister of defence , Moshe Dayan , lost his eye to a Vichy French sniper while fighting as a British soldier . |
| 26 | The Australian tourists got their first taste of county cricket against Worcestershire at New Road today . |
| 27 | As with many of the larger sebils , the arcaded upper storey was occupied by a kuttub , a school where little children received their first lessons on the Koran . |
| 28 | Then , in 1982 , the then fledgling Century published her first novel , Light a Penny Candle ; she has been a bestseller every since . |
| 29 | The Academy of Culinary Arts launched its first residential course programme . |
| 30 | The People 's Great Hural held its first session in the capital Ulan Bator on July 20 . |