Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour won the election of October 1964 by a whisker , though the event itself was overshadowed internationally by the fall of Khrushchev in the USSR and by the first Chinese nuclear test . |
| 2 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 3 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 4 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 5 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 6 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 7 | Leaving the rest of community care aside , the admissions to our part three E P H s were thirteen in July , twelve in August and in the first twenty eight days of September , just four . |
| 8 | The experience shattered Derek and for the first time he told his wife and parents the story of his harassments from the first meeting with the drug detective . |
| 9 | The second norwegian half was bloody excellent from Norway and for the first time a norwegian team wins a away in eastern Europe . |
| 10 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 11 | In 457 , when she was already fighting on two fronts , in Egypt and in the first Peloponnesian War , Athens made an alliance with Segesta ( ML 37 ) . |
| 12 | The play features actors Catherine Aran , Maldwyn John , Merfyn Jones and for the first time with Bara Caws , Manon Prysor . |
| 13 | Since the beginning of the year new shops have opened up in central Belfast and for the first time some are doing well selling avant-garde men 's and women 's clothes . |
| 14 | While her unpleasant husband shut himself in his room and wrote letters , she explored the island with Paul Masson and for the first time in her life ‘ tasted and touched the salt , the sand , the seaweed , the odorous soft bed of the receding sea , the dripping fish ’ . |