Example sentences of "the first [noun] ever [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 2 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 3 | Craobh nan Ubhal ( The Apple Tree ) is the first play ever to be written and performed in Gaelic , Doric and English . |
| 4 | The first survey ever of such tests has found that another 59 companies say they may start testing . |
| 5 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 6 | Fiat 's cultural showplace , the Palazzo Grassi , collaborates for the first time ever with a Venetian museum and produces an exhibition that is beautiful but misses the mark |
| 7 | But she had never realized quite how much knowledge she had assimilated until today , until she had been forced into conversation for the first time ever with a total stranger . |
| 8 | And here , for the first time ever on a decorative plate by Coalport , a pair of lively Robins pay tribute to the works of one of the most respected bird illustrators of all time . |
| 9 | Giraffe , zebra and , for the first time ever on an industrial site , white rhinoceros have been introduced . |
| 10 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 11 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |
| 12 | For the first time ever in Britain , CS gas was fired at rioters by the police . |
| 13 | It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ‘ flu virus . |
| 14 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 15 | For the first time ever in Germany , Chillida , who normally works with museums in Spain , will be exhibiting pieces from his private collection . |
| 16 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 17 | After taking his trousers and underpants off-for the first time ever in front of someone who was n't a member of his family — he was told he had no transmittable diseases — whatever they were , thought Charlie . |
| 18 | Paris and Frankfurt are growing particularly fast ( capitalisation increases of 83 per cent and 64 per cent respectively during 1989 ) , with turnover of domestic equities on German Exchanges being larger than the ISE 's for the first time ever in 1989 . |
| 19 | After two years of legal battles , on 2 May , the first exhibition ever of works from the Barnes Foundation of Merion , Pennsylvania , opens at the National Gallery of Art . |
| 20 | Sir Ranulph and his wife Ginny — the first woman ever to be awarded the Polar Medal — try to spend as much time as possible at their home on Exmoor , but even between expeditions , there is a lot of travelling to do . |
| 21 | I was the first woman ever into one of the famous gay bars . |
| 22 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 23 | The first opera ever to be staged in England is to be recreated to celebrate its 300th anniversary . |