Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 2 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 3 | He grinned at her , his fleshy lips curled into a knowing line , and Fran felt the first stirrings of anger damp down on the fear . |
| 4 | In June 1953 , Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest . |
| 5 | Bell began to experiment , and within a year , on 10 March 1876 , Watson heard the first words ever spoken on the newly invented telephone , ‘ Come here Watson , I want you . |
| 6 | The Greek goddess of vegetation and fruitfulness , Demeter gave the first seeds of wheat to mankind and taught him how to cultivate the soil and make bread from the grain . |
| 7 | At 1.24am on April 26th 1986 , the 14 men in the control room of reactor number four at Chernobyl witnessed the first stirrings of what was to become the worst nuclear accident in history . |
| 8 | RUSSELL HOULT conceded the first goals of his professional career and was lucky not to be sent off as Leicester crashed out of the Anglo Italian Cup . |
| 9 | You remember that von Bülow prepared the first performances of the Fourth Symphony with the Meiningen Orchestra but that Brahms himself accompanied and conducted the German tour . |
| 10 | In February 1990 WHO reported the first signs of HIV infection in eastern Europe and the Islamic countries of North Africa and the Middle East , regions which until recently were thought to be relatively untouched by the epidemic . |
| 11 | In 1983 Dr Sven Kullander took the first steps by restricting the genus to South American species ; unfortunately until such time as further revisions are made this leaves the rest of the species in a sort of ‘ taxonomic limbo ’ . |
| 12 | Programmes from Poland , Hungary , Croatia , Estonia , Czechoslovakia and the former East Germany reflected the first attempts after decades of oppression to present an uncensored picture of religious life in those countries . |
| 13 | Lucien experienced the first inklings of how the Ixmarites might possibly manipulate their own rules for their convenience . |
| 14 | A perfect baby , Merrick showed the first signs of deformity at the age of twenty-one months . |
| 15 | Vologsky felt the first tremblings of real fear creeping into his own body . |
| 16 | When Maxwell published the first details of the kinetic theory of gases in 1859 , in that very same paper he acknowledged the fact that the theory was falsified by measurements on the specific heats of gases . |