Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy nodded , her eyes like saucers , and Kathleen remembered the first time she had worked in A and E. |
| 2 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 3 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 4 | In 1964 Norah and Jean started the first Surrey regional training course . |
| 5 | Tanturi and Ivy provided the first convincing evidence for the choleretic action of the vagus by showing that stimulation of the distal end of the divided vagus caused increased secretion of bile . |
| 6 | The six UK inspectors and one each from Azerbaijan , Hungary and Ukraine formed the first international team from the UK . |
| 7 | But Nicholas Knight and Don Topley got the target down to six off the last over , and Knight hit the first ball into the crowd . |
| 8 | He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star . |
| 9 | The two guys near the bottom fell tumbling and Ember hit the first one hard on the neck . |
| 10 | He grinned at her , his fleshy lips curled into a knowing line , and Fran felt the first stirrings of anger damp down on the fear . |
| 11 | He quirked a dark brow , his eyes lingering with open appreciation on her slim figure in the silky pale green dress , and Fran felt the first whisper of heat run along her veins . |
| 12 | Between them , Whitaker and Coburn devised the first episode 's opening in an English school . |
| 13 | He was frequently asked for advice on the royal gardens at Windsor and Osborne , and Suttons received the first of several royal warrants from Queen Victoria in 1858 . |
| 14 | Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner refused to declare an emergency , under which a 60-day cooling-off period , would have been imposed and Bush became the first President to reject the advice of the National Mediation Board when he declined to intervene . |
| 15 | In 1923 , Jehu and Craig produced the first detailed account of the geology of this region , and followed it up with further accounts between 1925 and 1934 . |
| 16 | And Britain announced the first licence awards for North Sea Oil and Gas ’ . |
| 17 | This is when the pattern-cutting started and Amy produced the first calico toile . |
| 18 | Palaces were constructed in the ancient Austrasian royal centres , and Charles instigated the first major bridge building for centuries , with a structure 500 metres long at Mainz . |
| 19 | Nakabayashi and coworkers reported the first system based on methyl methacrylate , with tributyl borane as initiator and 4-META as bonding comonomer . |
| 20 | It was not until 1903 that the famous rope of Ravanel , Giraud and Comte completed the first grand traverse of the Drus in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | The 1750s marked an important transition , as works by such men as Duncombe and Ballard celebrated the achievements of women writers , and Colman and Thornton published the first edition of Poems by Eminent Ladies . |
| 22 | Wilson himself had the satisfaction of securing a permanent Joint Conference for the future settlement of wages at Hull and Goole and Tupper obtained the first negotiated settlement at Aberdeen . |
| 23 | While he was away being x-rayed , Crowe and Rutherford raised the first half-century stand of the match within 80 minutes , scoring faster than in the earlier stages of the game . |
| 24 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 25 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |