Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 2 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 3 | Barclay pulled a pen from his pocket and prodded part of the first plate . |
| 4 | The Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party ( RP-Refah Partisi — led by Necmettin Erbakan ) entered parliament for the first time , with 62 seats , on an agenda which included withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and renunciation of efforts towards EC membership . |
| 5 | Nijinsky then went to Longchamp as a hot favourite for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , but there , under a less-than-brilliant ride from Piggott , he tasted defeat for the first time , beaten a head by Sassafras . |
| 6 | She drew breath for the first time in three and a quarter hours . |
| 7 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 8 | Domestic consumption of grain overtook production for the first time . |
| 9 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 10 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 11 | From what I could gather , we played crap for the first 20–25 minutes . |
| 12 | So , in an effort to bring the sport together under one roof , the Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre played host to the first All-England Championships . |
| 13 | Many of these buildings which survive are in northern France and suffered bombardment in the First World War , but all are well restored to the original design . |
| 14 | Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place . |
| 15 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 16 | It was Geoteam Exploration 's first 3D seismic survey for BP and he paid tribute to the first class performance of the Nordic Explorer and staff . |
| 17 | He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start . |
| 18 | So , straight away , Terry Nation sat down at his typewriter and began work on the first phase of any TV writing project , the story idea . |
| 19 | JAMES CLEMENTS , a jovial rotund Englishman who runs the Sek Kong detention centre for Vietnamese boat people , could barely contain his satisfaction when telling reporters that nothing out of the ordinary happened when camp inmates heard news of the first deportations from Hong Kong . |
| 20 | In other words , almost all of the informants perceived incoherence in the first paragraph , when mapping the discourse model of the text world onto their own knowledge of the real world . |
| 21 | At Cromwell Road the students made use of the first floor which had a magnificent music room and a ballroom which they loaned to the Senior Common Room for the purposes of the annual Royal College Charity Ball which rivalled the Chelsea Arts Ball . |
| 22 | If you selected SKIRT from the first menu , the second menu will show a choice of skirt types , otherwise it will show a choice of SLEEVE/ARMHOLE types . |
| 23 | Four key members of my original team joined me from Hawker Siddeley and we started work on the first batch of 25 robots . |
| 24 | Jeremy started school during the first week in January , and she was glad to see him engrossed in his own school affairs and friendships again . |
| 25 | In Land ( state ) elections on April 21 in Kohl 's home state , the Rhineland-Palatinate , the CDU lost power for the first time since 1949 . |
| 26 | Spain and Portugal took part for the first time , having signed accession protocols on Nov. 14 , 1988 ( see pp. 36105-06 ; 36429 ) . |
| 27 | Among other multilateral contacts , Albanian delegations took part for the first time in a range of regional meetings , including a conference of Mediterranean chambers of commerce in April and one on Mediterranean water sources in May . |
| 28 | The Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) won 28 per cent and 26 seats , the right-wing National Conciliation Party ( PCN ) 9 per cent and nine seats and the left-wing Democratic Convergence ( CD ) 12.2 per cent and eight seats , although earlier estimates had suggested that the CD , which took part for the first time in a legislative election , had overtaken the PCN into third place . |
| 29 | The EC commissioner for external affairs , Frans Andriessen , who took part in the first stage of the negotiations in New York last Friday , will report on progress to Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg today . |
| 30 | Ninety-two competitors took part in the first walk on Whit Monday the 1st June 1903 , one of the first all-amateur walking events to be held in England . |