Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 2 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 3 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |
| 4 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 5 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 6 | Prost joined the Renault team in 1981 as a replacement for Jean-Pierre Jabouille and had his first success in the rain-interrupted French Grand Prix at Dijon . |
| 7 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 8 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 9 | George moved to Liverpool and produced his first documented work , a wax portrait relief of Henry Blundell [ q.v. ] of Ince , the connoisseur and sculpture collector . |
| 10 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 11 | Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk , who was born in Eureka , California and spent his first six years on a Red Indian reservation , scored centuries in the Varsity matches of 1953 and 1954 , and captained Cambridge in 1955 . |
| 12 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 13 | He moved into Mayfair and bought his first Matisse . |
| 14 | St Agnes introduced the Poor Clares into the Convent of St Saviour and became their first abbess in 1235 . |
| 15 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 16 | In 1941 he moved to Hollywood and landed his first part in Robert Stevenson 's Joan of Paris ( 1942 ) , a gripping propaganda adventure . |