Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 2 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 3 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 5 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 6 | From there , he became involved with the first commercial bungee jumping company , and brought the idea back home . |
| 7 | ‘ I sometimes wonder why you became involved in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | The ultimate clinical course of the colitis became evident during the first year of the study and there was no difference between the one year analysis and the final analysis ( Table II ) performed after a mean follow up of 2.8 years in the placebo group and 3.0 years in the cyclosporin group . |
| 9 | It was a fact that quite easily became disheartening during the first few months of captivity . |
| 10 | Erteco , for example , broke even for the first time only last year . |
| 11 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , in Bosnia the heads of its three warring armies met face-to-face for the first time yesterday and signed a ceasefire deal for the whole republic . |
| 13 | Financial compensation became available for the first time for criminal injuries ; the community service order raised hopes as an alternative to custody ; and an elaborate system of parole , later greatly expanded , was instituted . |
| 14 | Their report , published by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , draws on climate data made available for the first time to the West by the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences . |
| 15 | all the teachers got drunk on the first night in France . |
| 16 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 17 | How did you say you felt free for the first time in your life ? |
| 18 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 19 | She looked interested for the first time . |
| 20 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
| 21 | She felt giddy with the first intake of smoke , but suddenly saw how to make a whole of the face . |
| 22 | And the other men saw him , and some would have sniggered at the fall that would follow such arrogance , and a few would have suffered in the knowledge that defiance brings only pain and punishment , and for one or two or three the young man who ambled erect in the first rank was a donor of comfort . |
| 23 | He felt uneasy for the first time ever , a prickling at the back of his neck , a sense of personal danger . |
| 24 | Three Portrush penalty corners went unconverted in the first half . |
| 25 | Because the accident went unmonitored during the first few vital hours and days , certain statistics will never be available . |
| 26 | So was Stromness voted dry after the first war then or afore it ? |
| 27 | Seton 's forecast proved accurate in the first part , at least . |
| 28 | Shortly after incitement to racial hatred became criminal for the first time in 1965 , for example , some commentators questioned whether Jewish persons were covered by the Act , pointing to the argument that the Jewish community has a religious rather than a racial identity . |
| 29 | Two players tested positive in the first two months and since then speculation , rumours , rows and ructions have been the order of the day . |
| 30 | That 's why the story sounded plausible in the first place — he knew enough about the operation to string us along . |