Example sentences of "was [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap . |
| 2 | His slender figure was plunged first into light then into shadow as he passed before the slitted windows . |
| 3 | The mill at Kilchoman is of particular interest being constructed from corrugated iron sheets and was erected first at Craigens farm and moved to Kilchoman when the farmer who owned it went there . |
| 4 | Jonny was given first prize and a cheque for £750 for the novelty of his idea and professional presentation . |
| 5 | He managed to escape from the car and struggle to nearby houses where he was given first aid . |
| 6 | Surkov was to go first . |
| 7 | The dog was poisoned first , was n't it ? |
| 8 | Every part of the foot was placed first on the flat and then up on pointes , and the working leg was raised to every possible height and angle . |
| 9 | The American , who had been lying second after the morning 's compulsory figures , was placed first by all nine judges for both technical merit and presentation . |
| 10 | The club is of a high standard and was placed first in the 1990 30K Pushkin-Leningrad race . |
| 11 | To transfer the first 5,626 papers that came to hand would mean ignoring the 8,907 other papers on which Paisley was placed first , and the system reasonably requires that the second preferences expressed on those papers should also be taken into account . |
| 12 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 13 | He was posted first to the Artillery , but then transferred to the Royal Engineers because he had a driving licence . |
| 14 | A pilot study was undertaken first to identify and locate potential users who resided in the West Midlands and secondly to establish the employment and expenditure impacts of the Marina , Marina-related developments and of boat owners upon the local economy . |
| 15 | In the school , the fiction section of the lower school was catalogued first . |
| 16 | In Sacred Heart School , the non-fiction section of the lower school was catalogued first and subject codes were assigned to each item . |
| 17 | The vacancy was filled first by the Rev. H. Cottam , Rector of St. Mary 's , Crumpsall , who knew the school well , having been one of the Annual Examiners and having stood in during a previous illness , of Hamilton 's in 1875 . |
| 18 | This philosophy was developed first in the seventeenth century and it has become increasingly influential ever since . |
| 19 | In Minimata mercury poisoning was diagnosed first in cats . |
| 20 | If under the contract between A and B property had not yet passed to B ( see Chapter 3 ) , then A was still the owner when he sold to C. Still being the owner , A could pass that ownership to C. One has to examine the two contracts , B's and C's , and find out under which of them property was to pass first . |
| 21 | He died 5 January 1737 , ‘ suddenly , of a fit of apoplexy , as he was sitting in his chair at his house in Bartlett 's Buildings , Holborn ’ , and was succeeded first by his son Erasmus [ q.v. ] , the author of several treatises on economics , and then by a younger son , John , ‘ a notorious Jacobite ’ . |
| 22 | Senior Gen. Vo Van Kiet , who had been acting Chairman since Pham 's death , was reappointed First Vice-Chairman . |
| 23 | The serviles , as the conservative opposition was known , had few prospects in the Constituent Cortes : on 23 May 1813 the Cortes summoned its successor , the Ordinary Cortes , which was to meet first in Cadiz and then Madrid . |
| 24 | Communal overexploitation was averted first because of inter-personal face-to-face relationships involved in the design and implementation of forest preservation by a small community where enforcement and the meting out of punishments was a matter for the forest users themselves ; second , because of the existence of a special interest group ( carpenters ) ; and third , the shared and fierce desire of the people to remain as independent of outside influence and control as possible ( p. 434 ) . |
| 25 | After spending an itinerant early childhood he was educated first at an eccentric preparatory school intended for the sons of Christian Scientists , St Michael 's in Uckfield , Sussex , and later at Repton , from where , at the age of sixteen , he ran away . |
| 26 | He was educated first in Gainsborough , Lincolnshire , and then , owing to illness , at home where he had the run of a large library . |
| 27 | There Dorothy was educated first by a governess and then in the intellectually stimulating environment of Southborough House , which provided the only formal education she valued in retrospect . |
| 28 | She was educated first at home by governesses and subsequently at Miss Wilson 's Academy in Tenby and Miss Philpott 's Educational Establishment in London . |
| 29 | When an item is to be added to a full partition , the item at the Bottom , ie. the item which was added first , is deleted and the rest of the items shuffled down so that room can be created for the new item at the top . |
| 30 | Military experts suggested yesterday that the US was hoping its troops would be attacked by the pro-Noriega forces , allowing Washington to claim that it was attacked first and forced to intervene . |