Example sentences of "[noun sg] first [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lafaille first attempted the line in early March this year , but was forced back after four days by a combination of high winds and snowfall . |
| 2 | But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s . |
| 3 | But no blows were struck then , or in the similar crises of 1051 and 1052 , when Edward the Confessor first secured the expulsion and then accepted the return of the powerful Godwin family . |
| 4 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
| 5 | Her lawyers had argued the heiress retained reproduction rights on works by Matisse purchased by her father before 1910 , when French law first made the distinction between property rights and ‘ immaterial rights ’ such as those of reproduction . |
| 6 | Bonar Law first welcomed the idea as a means of reducing his party 's dependence on " the trade " , but opposed it when he recognized the scale of party feeling . |
| 7 | Their ‘ dieselised ’ version of a well proved 1,600cc four-cylinder engine first set the standard in 1976 , and more than 2,300,000 have been sold since then . |
| 8 | The Institute first considered the possibility of extending openness to disciplinary hearings at the request of Council member Douglas Llambias , after he had been refused admittance as an observer to the Disciplinary Committee hearing into the conduct of Polly Peck administrators Michael Jordan and Richard Stone ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 14 ) . |
| 9 | When Topaz first saw the Convent of St. Francis she was filled with panic . |
| 10 | I have said that when Boy first entered The Bar he was exhausted ; exhausted , walked off his feet . |
| 11 | Among witnesses called for the AFCO were Richard Doll , an epidemiologist from the University of Oxford , whose work first established the link between smoking and disease . |
| 12 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 13 | While Chapman 's team first reached the top of the table , in October 1923 , a petition was sent to the FA asking for the ban on his former colleagues at Leeds City to be lifted . |
| 14 | When Realism first took the stage , there seemed to be one . |
| 15 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 16 | The Court first rejected the Association 's argument that the agreement did not infringe Art 85(1) at all . |
| 17 | In May 1983 the head first introduced the appraisal at a meeting of senior staff and I attended this meeting so that the research project could be explained and I could answer any questions staff might have . |
| 18 | Options 4 and 5 allow you to drop on either side of the lateral water hazard , not nearer the hole and within two club lengths of the point marked B , where the ball first entered the hazard . |
| 19 | Langer admits that FOE first discussed the idea of endorsing products with Loblaws in the autumn of 1988 . |
| 20 | When , asked Henry Bellingham MP , ‘ did the Forestry Commission first urge the government to reduce emissions of both NOx and SO&sub2 ; ? ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 22 | Marriage tables ( analagous to life tables ) can be constructed showing , as might be expected , that advancing age first increases the chance of an imminent marriage but is finally an unfavourable factor . |
| 23 | Here the leaves were inserted into a swag base first to create the background . |
| 24 | Andrew Morton , the royal writer whose best-seller Diana : Her True Story first lifted the lid on the marriage problems of the warring Waleses , last night supported the conspiracy theory . |
| 25 | Wood dyes are best applied with a cloth , because if applied with a brush , there will be dark areas where the brush first touches the wood . |
| 26 | I grew up on movies and have always believed that if cameras had been invented before Ur and Og first trod the stone age boards then no one would ever have bothered to invent plays , they would have just leapt straight into the cinema . |
| 27 | Origen first launched the theme , developed in the eighteenth century by Joseph Butler and Isaac Newton , that revelation is to be understood on the analogy of nature . |
| 28 | From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers . |
| 29 | Strength , it turned out , is n't a prerequisite ( lucky thing , since tenor bells can weigh the same as a Mini ) ; in skilled hands the bell does most of the work , but a full ringing circle demands that the ringer first gets the bell moving and gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or ‘ set ’ with the mouth uppermost , ready to be rung on . |
| 30 | It took from the Edinburgh summit in December nineteen ninety two , when the current Prime Minister first announced the government 's intention to legislate on this issue , until the thirtieth of June nineteen ninety three before the European parliamentary elections bill had its first reading . |