Example sentences of "subject of [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the first sheet she wrote the subject of her first notes . |
| 2 | Instead , she took a job as a maid — the subject of her first book , One Pair of Hands . |
| 3 | Across the east coast bays of Auckland , the subject of my first New Zealand paintings , wide expanses of shimmering sea change colour beneath the sky , reflecting in turn crimson , purple , turquoise , emerald green and many shades of blue . |
| 4 | Further lectures by both Coleridge and Southey were to follow , those which Coleridge delivered including one attacking the slave trade and another concerning the Hair Powder Tax ( later to become the improbable subject of his first sermon ) ; and at the end of June he began a series at the Assembly Coffee House on the Quay comparing the English Civil War and the French Revolution . |
| 5 | I began by asking Sir Peter to recall the incidents that led to Britten 's choosing George Crabbe 's The Borough , and specifically the story of the fisherman , Peter Grimes , as the subject of his first opera . |
| 6 | This was the subject of his first book , " The Shining Mountain " . |