Example sentences of "first [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first parish priest was Father Kevin Daley , who at first lived at the Cathedral House until a house was bought on Sundorne Avenue . |
| 2 | Many trade marks first registered under the Trade Marks Act 1875 are still in use , testifying to the importance of trade marks , including Britain 's No.1 trade mark , the BASS red triangle mark . |
| 3 | I do not know when Elizabeth had first fallen under the spell , but I know that her friendship with Ivy did not begin until a year or two later . |
| 4 | Direction was first given to the work by the publication in 1978 of the Warnock Report , the results of a committee of inquiry into the education of handicapped children and young people . |
| 5 | This fanatical regard for esteemed works as they were first given to the public leads to intimidating variations in price . |
| 6 | The production was first given at the Theatre Royal in York , yet it transfers very well to the larger auditorium of the Grand . |
| 7 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 8 | Eventually , the ballet was first given by the University Ballet as Suite , Opus 3 , but for a revival by the Ballet Club he settled on Suite , ‘ Aus Holbergs Zeit ’ ( ‘ from Holberg 's time ’ ) . |
| 9 | He elaborated the point he first made in the February that Gothic architecture expressed a spirit ‘ opposed to liberty and the true interests and prosperity of a Protestant country ’ . |
| 10 | The first arose from the government 's decision to impose a standstill grant for that year — in effect a reduction in the District 's planned programme in the 1952–53 session at a time when much patient work to gain support from trade union branches and members had succeeded particularly in Norwich and Northamptonshire . |
| 11 | Patient M17 had the epidemic strain of P cepacia in his sputum when first referred to the Manchester adult CF clinic from the Liverpool CF clinic . |
| 12 | For this reason , he invited the previous speaker who had first referred to the lack of education of the people of the area to spend a day or two in the area sometime to experience it first hand . |
| 13 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 14 | The solid foamed skin first formed on the top would then be steadily lifted by the foaming of the combustion-zone beneath and a vertical foamed ‘ pillar ’ rise from the block . |
| 15 | The original village , first made an appearance in the public records in 1056 when it donated land for a monastery , but it was actually first formed in the foot hills in 641 by mountain folk escaping an invasion by the Rotaris . |
| 16 | Its functions were not at first regarded by the courts with much enthusiasm . |
| 17 | This was first formulated by the philosopher John Austin in a series of lectures which are now collected into a short book with the deceptively simple title of How to do Things with Words ( Austin 1962 ) . |
| 18 | High factor sunscreens are essential to prevent a typical British skin burning when first exposed to the sun . |
| 19 | High factor sunscreens wo n't stop you turning brown , but will prevent your skin from burning when first exposed to the sun , allowing it slowly to acclimatise and produce its own natural protection and colour . |
| 20 | This story was first exposed in the August 1973 issue of the New Internationalist . |
| 21 | When a frottola is through-composed under textual pressure , and aerated and enlivened by polyphonic passages , it is indistinguishable in musical style from the earlier madrigal , particularly as the madrigal tended at first to cling to the note against-note style with a melodically more important highest part . |
| 22 | To help achieve this , the proposed Trust would aim to give all patients a date for admission to hospital when first placed on the waiting list . ’ |
| 23 | The octamer sequence was first recognized in the histone H2B gene and in the heavy and kappa light chain immunoglobulin genes and later identified as a regulatory sequence motif for many other cellular and viral genes ( reviewed in [ 1 ] ) . |
| 24 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 25 | Jay had felt fleeting sexual desire when they first met in the corridor where she worked , a tumbledown rats ' nest in East London . |
| 26 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 27 | He had first checked from the window that the taxi he had telephoned was waiting . |
| 28 | When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records . |
| 29 | Julius needs to maintain a certain lifestyle , and you might find it difficult at first to cope with the demands he 'll make on you . ’ |
| 30 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |