Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 32 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
| 33 | From the humble beginnings of the previous year you flew the first great test of concept of long-range strategic bombardment . |
| 34 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 35 | In the fourteenth century mystical awakening we see the first signs of a deeper and more committed type of religion , which would finally culminate in both Protestant and Catholic reformations . |
| 36 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
| 37 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 38 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 39 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
| 40 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 41 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |
| 42 | At the same time we find the first attempts to develop certain overseas areas as specialist producers of such exports to the ‘ developed ’ world — indigo and jute in Bengal , tobacco in Colombia , coffee in Brazil and Venezuela , not to mention cotton in Egypt , etc . |
| 43 | In the Montagu declaration we see the first official glimmer of an idea which exercised a vast and perversely inspirational influence on the process of imperial disintegration : the idea of the multiracial Commonwealth . |
| 44 | By the time it published the first issue of its bulletin , STOP , in February 1980 the DUC had effectively changed from being an information and research group into an opposition group , as the bulletin made clear : ‘ After investigation into the hazards related to uranium and its by-products , the DUC feels that since uranium can not be mined safely , exploration should cease . ’ |
| 45 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |