Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [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 By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it .
5 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 .
6 It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber .
7 As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring .
8 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 .
9 From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space .
10 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 .
11 Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster .
12 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 .
13 The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Norway had become the first NATO member to establish diplomatic relations with Russia , following moves by Bulgaria and Hungary .
18 Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 And now , Isabel had spoken the first words for a day or more , only to make them aggrieved , angry words , and incomprehensible too .
22 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 …
23 In the week before the visit , Keating had become the first Prime Minister to suggest that Australia drop the Union Flag device from its own , further fuelling public debate between republicans and monarchists about Australia 's status .
24 I was surprised to find that Mr Summerfield had known the first Station Master of Bishop 's Castle , Elisha Edwin Owen — it was a thrill to speak to someone who had received first-hand memories of the start of the Railway .
25 Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’
26 And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl .
27 They had arrived home near the turnpike crossroads at 10.15pm , they had heard a shot at 10.25 , and they had seen William Tidbury and William Day leaving a Path near the woods at 10.50 , which was some five minutes after PC Golby had discovered the first body .
28 By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories .
29 Adrian had taken the first one he came to , which turned out to be Black Cherry .
30 Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey .
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