Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 2 | InterCity turned in its first profit in 1988–9 , only a year after transitional support was withdrawn . |
| 3 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 4 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston . |
| 6 | SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years . |
| 7 | Then Maggie came across her first human body . |
| 8 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 9 | THE ORPHAN smuggled out of war-torn Bosnia by TV newsman Michael Nicholson spoke of her first days at a British school yesterday and declared : ‘ It is good . ’ |
| 10 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 11 | Charles Muller from Stroud came to his first conference in 1947 . |
| 12 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 13 | ‘ Our society needs technical progress , ’ Kohl said in his first policy declaration since his election in March . |
| 14 | No other organisation needed to meet such a rapidly expanding demand for a single product that they had , in effect , to build one new factory every two months , as the BEA did during their first ten years . |
| 15 | Liz came to her first CPS on Saturday since Christmas . |
| 16 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
| 17 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow wept at her first Thanksgiving holiday without long-time lover Woody Allen , a friend revealed yesterday . |
| 18 | Founded by IBM 's famous Scots-Irish Watsons , Greenock foundered for its first years , until IBM learned that the best people to run a factory in Scotland were usually Scots . |
| 19 | If Leonard appeared in his first book to invite comparisons , now he made statements , claims , and most of all , confessions . |
| 20 | Jamie answered on her first buzz , and the door clicked open for her . |
| 21 | In his Genesee Diary , Henri Nouwen wrote of his first encounter with John Eudes , head of the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani , who was to become his director : |
| 22 | The Bill failed at its first reading by a majority of forty-six , but legislation against deaf discrimination has remained high on the BDA 's agenda . |
| 23 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 24 | VINNIE Jones returned for his first match of the season and celebrated his comeback after injury with the goal which earned Wimbledon a point . |
| 25 | Diana returned after her first visit to Waco to go about recruiting Manchester Adventists using her father 's church membership lists . |
| 26 | The M. C. R. voted in its first African President . |
| 27 | ‘ I know that Paheri stayed with your first wife , and that your second son was lost when the northern empire collapsed . ’ |
| 28 | The oak refectory table with a drawer at each end is a copy of the dining room table Lutyens designed for his first married home . |
| 29 | After Clough headed wide from a curling Orlygsson cross five minutes after the interval , Everton scored with their first attack of the second half . |
| 30 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |