Example sentences of "first [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 2 | The first stemmed from the arduous shift patterns worked by staff in Exminster in the late 1970s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You may want to make the nice gesture , which was made to me when I first moved into a flat and I have repeated myself whenever I have moved , of leaving a plant or a box of chocolates and a note wishing the next occupants a happy life in your former home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The idea of road pricing first surfaced in the early Sixties . |
| 7 | Dancing masters gradually developed the classical technique from European folk dance which they first changed into the elegant steppings of courtiers in the palaces of Italian and Spanish kings and prelates . |
| 8 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 9 | Importantly , this document does not refer to Louis Hotteterre , the brother of Nicolas ( dit Colin ) , who lived on the rue Marmousets in the parish of Ste Marie Magdelaine , but to the Louis whom I first identified in an earlier article : a letter written in 1712 by the French oboist Louis Rousselet mentions that he had left a musette for repair with Louis Hotteterre , who lived ‘ proche le Pon [ sic ] Marie ’ . |
| 10 | A third centre of jade-working was that still active in New Zealand as the Maori first came under the direct observation of European explorers , colonists and ethnologists . |
| 11 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 12 | Yeovil 's first came in the 31st minute when Paul Wilson scored with a low diving header . |
| 13 | You know when we , we , when we first opened from a dead start right ? |
| 14 | Two classes of category were identified : the first consisted of the 41 types occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 2 word positions , to capture those words in close grammatical construction with the node . |
| 15 | The first happened at the local cinema . |
| 16 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 17 | Newton first arrived at the inverse square law of attraction by considering the elliptical motion of a point planet around a stationary point sun . |
| 18 | The pasty-faced bureaucrats at New Scotland Yard were not to know he felt about as much at home there when he first arrived as a Martian . |
| 19 | C&P 's sites have steadily reduced their liquid discharges thanks to a series of improvement programmes which first began in the 1970s . |
| 20 | He first embarked on an Open University degree in the technology faculty some ten years ago , but gave it a rest for a few years before starting in earnest in 1986 , in his second year at Wedgwood . |
| 21 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 22 | Determining the role and scope of managers within the industry is an exercise which the Association first undertook in the 1970s . |
| 23 | eh ? yeah they are shrivelled up little nuts , there was this programme last night about the B B C when it first started in the nineteen fifties |
| 24 | He first started in the 1940s while stationed as an army draftsman in London , and from 1966 to 1988 made annual return visits , establishing relationships with Agnew 's , Jeremy Drummond , J.S. Maas and others . |
| 25 | It was the Jewish people who first conceived of a single God , who was all-powerful and , in return for worship and obedience , could be expected to reward virtue and punish vice . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As the leader of the Romantic school of young French painters , Bonington took London by storm when he first exhibited at the British Institution in 1826 . |
| 28 | Silhouetted against the grey sky , on the top , was a figure Roland at first took for a seated monarch by Henry Moore , enthroned and crowned . |
| 29 | His Puritan inclinations found favour with the electorate of Poole , which he first represented in the Addled Parliament of 1614 , and he sat , always for Dorset constituencies , in ten of its next twelve successors . |
| 30 | Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear . |