Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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1 | When they submitted their paper and Fleischmann gave his first public presentation on 28 March it was this peak alone that was exhibited ; it is shown enlarged in Figure 7 with the number of counts in the vertical axis and the energy scale along the bottom . |
2 | This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II . |
3 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
4 | NIGEL AND ELEANOR HAD THEIR FIRST SERIOUS QUARREL A FEW months later . |
5 | Les Conn : ‘ By this time , I had arranged a recording test with Decca and David had his first single released called Liza Jane which was on Vocalion . ’ |
6 | And Gadfly spent his first 25 years in Shildon . |
7 | They drove to a point higher up the mountains where the snow was already thick , and Katherine had her first skiing lessons . |
8 | Ireland had a record number of cases last year , and Denmark had its first case of BSE last August : a cow imported from Scotland . |
9 | More wine was brought , an accordionist appeared from nowhere and everybody began to sing while she and Ludovico danced their first dance in the hastily cleared space in the middle of the floor . |
10 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
11 | The city saw much conflict during El Cid 's campaigns , as the ebb and flow of conquest and recovery gave it first a Christian master and then a Moorish one . |
12 | In 1946 , Trinidad and Tobago held their first elections under universal suffrage and , for these politically and culturally fragmented islands , the ensuing decade would be of the utmost importance , for it would see the emergence of a political leader who , through the Peoples Nationalist Movement , would revolutionise the political life of the colony whilst propelling it toward independence . |
13 | Delegations from Laos and China held their first meeting in Vientiane in August 1990 to discuss the delineation of a permanent border between the two countries ; at the close of the meeting a provisional border agreement was signed . |
14 | The phone rang and Paula grabbed hers first . |
15 | Wednesday broke their duck after 12 minutes when Nigel Worthington crossed low , and Bright saw his first effort blocked by Dmitri Kharine , but made no mistake with the second . |
16 | we 've some better news at last of Gloucester rugby … the cherry and whites won their first match of the season on saturday … they beat cardiff at Kingsholm 16-5 |
17 | On Nov. 12 Taiwan and Japan held their first open Cabinet-level meeting since Japan restored relations with China in 1972 . |
18 | The Romans and Vikings used them first as routes into the country for conquest and later for trade . |
19 | In December 1974 Camilla and Andrew had their first child — and asked Charles to be a godfather . |
20 | Then there are the film adaptations since 1950 , almost all of them missed opportunities , and the fluctuating fortunes of the plays in the theatre , of which Holroyd provides a compact summary — though not so compact that he does not find room for such items as a musical version of Antony and Cleopatra called Her First Roman , which opened ( and closed ) in Boston in the late Sixties . |
21 | Birchwood Town won 2-1 at home against East Leigh in division two , third-placed Kingsway won 6-3 against Winwick and Norland collected their first points of the season with a 1-0 home win against Wood Albion . |
22 | Thomas and Elizabeth lost their first child five months after the marriage ; the next , Nancy or Nany , was buried at Catherine Hill on 16 December 1773 , the day of the Boston Tea Party . |
23 | The ball went loose and John scored his first league goal for Derby . |
24 | The little group turned the comer of the house and Dalgliesh and Massingham had their first clear view of the facade of Hoggatt 's Laboratory . |
25 | I was prepared to drop him , but Robert dropped me first . ’ |
26 | Yes Eleanor stood up but Lee said it first okay . |
27 | But Muawad spent his first year in Parliament as an exile in the Syrian port city of Lattakia , after a member of a rival family accused him of taking part in an inter-clan clash in June 1957 near Zghotra in which 16 people were killed . |