Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 2 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 3 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 4 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 5 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 6 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 7 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 8 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 9 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 10 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 11 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 12 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 13 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 14 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |
| 15 | Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster . |
| 16 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 17 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 18 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 19 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 20 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 21 | Norway had become the first NATO member to establish diplomatic relations with Russia , following moves by Bulgaria and Hungary . |
| 22 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 23 | Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ . |
| 24 | Blake managed to stop the first punch reaching its mark , but soon realized that he was also a target and a dozen people lashing out at him and his companion were not good odds . |
| 25 | The journey is a repeat of an epic voyage 60 years ago when nuns from the Carmel Convent in Darlington travelled to found the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 26 | The meeting started badly when Khieu Samphan refused to attend the first session , opposing the seating arrangement which treated the NGC as a single body , rather than three separate , equal groups . |
| 27 | Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China . |
| 28 | Limberger had taken the first set 6-4 when Cash , a candidate for Australia 's first-round Davis Cup match against the United States in late March , decided the tendinitis in his knee was too painful to continue . |
| 29 | And now , Isabel had spoken the first words for a day or more , only to make them aggrieved , angry words , and incomprehensible too . |
| 30 | Margaret Gowing in her official history of the British post-war atomic programme said : ‘ Polonium was a little-known element needed for a vital component of the ( atomic ) bomb … after Harwell had made the first polonium , Windscale assumed production responsibility … |