Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pos pn] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The British foreign office also showed itself more forward-looking than almost any other in the adoption of the typewriter : it appointed its first typist in 1889 and had eight by 1900 .
2 It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train .
3 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
4 As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring .
5 It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken .
6 Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 .
7 A bootstrap operation , it attracted its first venture capital in August of 1990 , a $1.2m investment from Sunwestern Investment Group .
8 And er it achieved my first ambition in life to appear on television I , I do n't know wheth can you remember the Rampton enquiry
9 The aircraft was seen by a reliable observer as it initiated its first overshoot ; within two minutes he had telephoned saying that the aircraft was only 50m above the ground and heading south .
10 The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) .
11 started manufacturing extruded products in 1964 , with the current Omega brand being launched in 1976. exports business grew rapidly through to 1988 when it won its first Queen 's Award for Export .
12 Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
13 far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work
14 Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics .
15 It held its first meeting on Dec. 23 , and unanimously chose Chief Ernest Adegunle Shonekan , a lawyer and prominent industrialist , as its chair and effectively acting Prime Minister .
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