Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sixteenth edition contained the first of the Phoenix schedules . |
| 2 | And before those following could rein in and look for cover , or dismount and string their bows , or drive headlong into the trees from which their death was launched , the second volley followed the first . |
| 3 | Said , alright , I said the first week said the first week I said , then it 'll |
| 4 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 5 | The sky above them lit again , and the next rumble produced the first spattering of rain . |
| 6 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 7 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 8 | LABOUR LEADERS last night suffered the first setback of the Brighton conference when delegates overwhelmingly rejected pleas for unity by demanding heavy cuts in defence spending . |
| 9 | HTV last night claimed a first victory in its fight to prevent a rival ITV company swallowing it up . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 11 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 12 | A man of 65 , from Bristol , last week became the first British patient to benefit from the technique , known as rotational angioplasty . |
| 13 | Little known UK company , White Cross Systems Ltd , Bracknell , Berkshire , last week introduced the first in a family of Transputer-based parallel servers , the White Cross IDS 9010 . |
| 14 | The Cetia SA subsidiary of Thomson-CSF SA , which specialises in VME workstations and processor boards for real-time applications , last week introduced the first computers based on the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC 601 microprocessor . |
| 15 | It carries one of the largest selections of English language titles in France , and last year extended the first floor with a showroom for ELT materials . |
| 16 | ‘ Last year saw the first Pro-am pairs competition which proved so popular with the riders . |
| 17 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |