Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 2 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 3 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 4 | Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system . |
| 5 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 6 | When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said . |
| 7 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 8 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 9 | Indeed , in November , 1915 , American radio engineers on the tower picked up the first broadcast voices beamed across the Atlantic from Arlington , Virginia . |
| 10 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
| 11 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |