Example sentences of "first [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember these houses well , because in the first lived two school-friends , Ron and Reg Bruton . |
| 2 | It was the demagogues of Ancient Rome who first made proper government impossible . |
| 3 | When Mr Roach first made this point in late 1988 , many economists thought he was being too sanguine . |
| 4 | One study found that nearly two thirds of patients had had their incontinence for over two years before they first sought professional advice . |
| 5 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 6 | It seemed they would only be remembered for the effervescent day-glo Sixties pop which took popular root in Manhattan 's late Seventies downtown scene , where the songs Rock Lobster and Planet Claire first became free-spirited party anthems . |
| 7 | Guadeloupe and Martinique first became French possessions in 1635 . |
| 8 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 9 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 10 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 11 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 12 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 13 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 14 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 15 | The sapphire and diamond ring , first revealed this week in TODAY , and the gold wedding band had their origins in a far humbler place — her own studio in the quiet cathedral city of Winchester , Hants . |
| 16 | Indeed , films like ‘ The Living River ’ are as much in demand now as when first produced five years ago . |
| 17 | Wedgwood first produced fine bone china in the early years of the 19th century and since the turn of the 20th century it has become the company 's major product . |
| 18 | And the main reason for Rover 's success is the Maestro and Montego , cars first produced ten years ago . |
| 19 | It was Gauss who first disclosed this power in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . |
| 20 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 21 | The government first designated six areas to be turned into HATs , without the tenants being given a say . |
| 22 | Little came of this but in the next decade , the 1790s , the French armies were to use the large-scale production of hydrogen by decomposition to some effect when balloons first found military use . |
| 23 | So , it worked ideal , and that 's when I first found this place or heard about it well I heard . |
| 24 | I was told when I first entered this business that a pretty girl is on her way out at 23 and all washed up at 27 . |
| 25 | The first occurred one summer 's day , when he was standing beside a flowering currant bush : |
| 26 | Bukharin first posed this exchange as follows : ‘ Considered as a whole , we find that the process of reproduction is a process of constant disturbance and re-establishment of equilibrium between society and nature . |
| 27 | In 1912 he first used stencilled figures and letters in ‘ Guitare ’ , an oval painting owned by the Musée de Grenoble , and in 1913 adopted collage techniques , as in ‘ Tivoli-Cinéma ’ , a work which once belonged to Pablo Picasso . |
| 28 | Danny Kaye first used this trick in Wonder Man ( 1945 ) , where he played twins ( one of them a ghost ) and repeated it in variant forms in On the Riviera ( 1951 ) and On the Double ( 1961 ) . |
| 29 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 30 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |