Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last issue of Action we published the first portion of the international Study and Action Programme which was launched in July this year by WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 2 | In co-operation with Finsbury Borough Council it established the first ‘ sheltered ’ work-room where ‘ elderly workers could be employed for two hours a day , on small assembling and packing jobs provided by local firms , paying the fair rate for the work completed ’ . |
| 3 | ( In case you missed the first , it featured a woman brewing up in a Beetle . ) |
| 4 | Our President , Lady Braithwaite , appearing in public for the first time in her new role , was warmly greeted , and during the afternoon she drew the first lucky winners of our 200 Club , a most important new venture to raise badly needed funds for the Society . |
| 5 | Both David Whitaker and Verity Lambert had been captivated by Terry Nation 's Dalek story right from the moment they saw the first ‘ treatment ’ ( story idea ) . |
| 6 | In the same match he became the first bowler to take eight wickets in an innings in a Test against West Indies in England . |
| 7 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 8 | Arrived at my chambers , I reviewed it over a pipe and the next day I wrote the first chapter . |
| 9 | She first met Molly Braithwaite when , as Director of Physical Education and Social Activities at the Central London Polytechnic she opened the first Medau Rhythmical Movement class with Molly as its teacher . |
| 10 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 11 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 12 | To her dismay she felt her cheeks grow hot , and by the time she reached the treatment area she found the first of her patients had arrived . |
| 13 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 14 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 15 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
| 16 | By consistently applying quantum mechanics to Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field he constructed the first known specimen of a quantum field theory . |
| 17 | Lo and behold , you have the full twelve month series from Jan to Dec done and dusted , in the format you typed the first one . |
| 18 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 19 | The reason he survived the first strike is the reason that you all escaped the second . |
| 20 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 21 | ‘ The way I played the first set was not me , not my usual game . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Under that system I used the first term almost entirely as a preparation for the teaching practice itself . |
| 24 | From the humble beginnings of the previous year you flew the first great test of concept of long-range strategic bombardment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It does n't bother me the way it did the first time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 30 | ‘ By the time I reached the first green my clubs were soaked . |