Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 2 | He made his official Palace debut in the FA Cup tie with QPR on 5 January 1946 and was between the posts when Palace met Mansfield for the first post-war League match on 31 August 1946 . |
| 3 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 4 | A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia . |
| 5 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 6 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 7 | Computer Reseller News and its vendor sources say Intel , which already bumped Pentium into the first quarter , will be delaying it until late next year because of those heat dissipation and manufacturing problems we told you about ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 8 | In November Nelson Mandela , deputy president of the African National Congress , visited Swaziland for the first time since his February release . |
| 9 | In July 1990 , the then New Zealand Minister for Tourism and Disarmament and Arms Control , Fran Wilde , visited Fiji in the first direct contact between the two countries since the coups of 1987 . |
| 10 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 11 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 12 | Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May . |
| 13 | Honest , lovey , ’ the dresser said as she helped Constance into the first dress . |
| 14 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 15 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 16 | As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition . |
| 17 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 18 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 19 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid this tunic is a little on the tight side , ’ she told Marianne at the first fitting of her costume , after tugging ineffectually at the zip on the shimmery silver material . |
| 21 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
| 22 | However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |
| 24 | ‘ I told Cadogan after the first hour . |
| 25 | It was Mr Duggan 's vision that secured Eurovision in the first place for Millstreet , against the odds . |
| 26 | When ‘ Dick ’ met Wayne for the first time , Widmark said to the Duke , ‘ Tell your press agent that the name is Richard . ’ |
| 27 | Erm , I met Mr for the first time in the airport lounge at , erm er , er , Kennedy Airport erm , we discussed at great length and had a very interesting discussion erm , er , Pearsons erm , he accepted er , the job and h I , he has no obligation to me whatsoever and he is one of the er , members of the er , remuneration committee , and I actually take offence at what you 're saying . |
| 28 | Immediately afterwards , during the first Test , Canterbury met ND in the first of two top-of-the-table clashes within a fortnight . |
| 29 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 30 | Goal machine Martin McGaughey , even deadlier than Cowan at his Linfield peak , had a chance to decide for himself when he faced Smith for the first time last week . |