Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Butch Reynolds qualified for his first major international competition since serving a two-year suspension for steroid use at the US world indoor trials in Boston . |
| 2 | The oak refectory table with a drawer at each end is a copy of the dining room table Lutyens designed for his first married home . |
| 3 | Then Maggie came across her first human body . |
| 4 | On September 14 , 1989 , the 401st Bomb Group arrived for their first annual reunion to be held in England . |
| 5 | Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi . |
| 6 | Comments began during his first televised match . |
| 7 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 8 | Paramount , for example , as well as providing Korda with the money he needed for his first English films , made a deal with Wilcox 's British and Dominions company to supply them with 12 pictures annually on budgets of £30,000 apiece . |
| 9 | Girding its loins for a deeper plunge into the commercial market , Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced a strategic relationship with Lotus Development Corp that will see Lotus Notes , cc:Mail , Ami Pro and Freelance Graphics ported to its first native Unix platform , HP/UX . |
| 10 | But it also led to her first public performance . |
| 11 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 12 | I went to my first gay pub . |
| 13 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 14 | Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession ? |
| 15 | The M. C. R. voted in its first African President . |
| 16 | On the other side , revolutionary parties may come to accept more of the existing social institutions than they did in their first enthusiastic advocacy of a brave new world . |
| 17 | Kildare , who as they smiled on their first born son in 1725 decided to christen him Arthur , ( 2 ) ( 1725–1803 ) after his godfather and benefactor Archbishop Arthur Price of Cashel . |
| 18 | ‘ It is the most urgent task for the cabinet to restore public trust in politics , ’ he said in his first important policy speech since taking office . |
| 19 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |