Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Owers showed no signs of rustiness , often winning the ball in midfield and supplying the deadly pass to Goodman which produced the first goal . |
2 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
3 | The second HEAO was the Einstein Observatory , which produced the first pictures of astronomical objects at X-ray wavelengths . |
4 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
5 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
6 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
7 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
8 | In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O . |
9 | Ten of the 25 practices in the Oxford Regional Health Authority which entered the first wave of the fundholding scheme were asked to continue collecting referral data for a further year . |
10 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
11 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
12 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
13 | But it was the failure of the Windscale Inquiry to represent adequately the protesters ' arguments which encouraged the first example of direct action in this country . |
14 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
15 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |
16 | With two World Cups now under the IB 's belt though , it seems pretty clear from the post mortems which followed the first event in Australia and New Zealand , and the one held nine months ago in France , the U.K. and Ireland , that making money in this new era of professionalism is almost as important , if not equal in importance , to the game itself . |
17 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
18 | Early in 1938 two summations of his work were published : Essays Ancient and Modern in March and , a month later , Collected Poems 1909–1935 which included the first publication of " Burnt Norton " . |
19 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
20 | Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ . |
21 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
22 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
23 | AUBREY BOOMER was the last surviving member of the Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team which contested the first match against the Americans in 1927 . |
24 | Mike Wilson , managing director of Gameplan , the company which organised the first event last September , said he was still searching for ‘ someone to fire the starting pistol ’ with a commitment to guarantee the necessary money . |
25 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
26 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
27 | Smith was on course to cross ahead of Steinlager 2 's track , the 84 foot ketch which won the first leg having slowed noticeably in the past two days . |
28 | Yes , these are the very same thoughts which marred the first tour . |
29 | However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World . |
30 | Furber was also one of the Society of Gardeners led by Miller which published the first part of its Catalogus Plantarum in 1730 , but by then he had issued two catalogues of his own , one of English and foreign trees , the other of ‘ the Best and Choicest Fruit Trees ’ ( both in 1727 ) . |