Example sentences of "[vb past] out [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I myself came out a first floor window erm a lot of a lot of entrances had already been blocked by the tanks |
| 2 | The Open Software Foundation last week announced the general availability of Release 1.1 of its OSF/1 operating system and trundled out the first snapshot of the Distributed Management Environment , for members . |
| 3 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 4 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 5 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |
| 6 | Bodley 's view about the literary insignificance of English drama was formally challenged by Ben Jonson who published plays in the Folio edition of his Workes in 1616 and later , and in response to Jonson 's success , by Shakespeare 's first editors , Heminge and Condell , who brought out the First Folio of Shakespeare 's plays in 1623 ( eight years after Shakespeare died ) . |
| 7 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 8 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 9 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
| 10 | I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West Passage . |
| 11 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 12 | On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country . |
| 13 | In the 1950s , Professor Paul carried out the first experiments using a form of magnetic bottle — the ‘ Paul trap ’ — to isolate ionised atoms . |
| 14 | Overall , however , the expedition was a great success : ‘ Most of our aims were achieved , as — among other objectives — we confirmed the presence of five threatened species of mammal , we carried out the first study of bats in the area , and we gathered valuable information on the flora of the area , including the discovery of a new species , ’ she continued . |
| 15 | Thomas started operational duties with the Beaufort , initially on mine-laying , but on September 11 he , with four other aircraft , carried out the first torpedo attack to be made by 22 Squadron with Beaufort aircraft . |
| 16 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 17 | She held out the first page of the manuscript file for him to read . |