Example sentences of "first [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 2 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 3 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 4 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 5 | The castle , silhouetted against the sky , was first built in the thirteenth century , but was destroyed in 1350 in one of the local quarrels of the period . |
| 6 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | First built in the twelfth century , the Kremlin is ringed with high crenellated walls and crowned with the golden domes of the cathedrals . |
| 8 | Yeovil 's first came in the 31st minute when Paul Wilson scored with a low diving header . |
| 9 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |
| 10 | Hewlett Packard Co 's HP 9000–8X0 series , first introduced in the second quarter of 1986 , comes in at number nine with an installed value of $1,168m , a total of 9,730 machines , up by 4% since January . |
| 11 | This feature was first introduced in the eighteenth century to let owls into the barn to catch vermin . |
| 12 | The last five tables listed in Figure 14.2 were first introduced in the eighteenth edition . |
| 13 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 14 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 15 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |
| 16 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 18 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 19 | It was first recorded in the nineteenth century in the inventories of the Corsini collection , Florence , where it is last noted in 1880 , leaving Italy ‘ well before the current laws went into effect ’ , as Getty paintings curator George Goldner points out . |
| 20 | The new building was an Anglian settlement , the name first recorded in the 10th century . |
| 21 | When I lost my first serve in the first set , it threw me off a bit . |
| 22 | Amongst them is quaint Braemar , home of the famous Highland games , first held in the 10th century … friendly Ballater , where many of the local shops proudly display the Royal Warrant … and of course the Royal fairy-tale castle of BALMORAL , nestling in the lush pine forests of the Dee Valley which is open May , June and July . |
| 23 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 24 | The Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard on the River Medway was first established in the 16th century . |
| 25 | Clemens was not content to borrow Pierre Sandrin 's very popular ‘ Doulce memoire ’ ( first published in the first book of Moderne 's Le Parangon des chansons ( Lyons , 1538 ) ) for the ‘ Sicut erat ’ of his first Magnificat Primi Toni ; he based every section of his Magnificat Octavi Toni on a chanson , actually drawing attention to their titles in his superius part : |