Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but it 's flashing just as long for those who bought it first time round , is n't it ? |
| 2 | In 1829 he produced his first coloured print , ‘ Butterflies ’ , and achieved popular acclaim in 1834 with the coloured plates for Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | In 1881 he married his first cousin , Eliza , daughter of Franklin Stanley Cripps , a small shopkeeper in Wisbech . |
| 4 | In 1972 I undertook my first race since leaving school 35 years earlier and managed 13.3 seconds for the 100m , ending last in the O50 final and lame in both hamstrings . |
| 5 | In 1929 he made his first trip to Spain , where Toledo inspired him to achieve a greater breadth and expressiveness in his landscapes . |
| 6 | After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 . |
| 7 | In 1804 he produced his first popular set of aquatints , Sixty Views of the Lakes . |
| 8 | In 1876–7 he made his first visit to Japan and this confirmed his admiration for oriental design and inspired much of his best work , as well as a book , Japan : its Architecture , Art , and Art Manufactures ( 1882 ) . |
| 9 | In 1920 he published his first article , on the Hall 's history , in the first issue of its magazine , which he had launched , and in 1927 he produced a pioneering , scholarly study , An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times . |
| 10 | In 1853 he married his first cousin , Henrietta Elizabeth , daughter of Samuel Wood . |
| 11 | In 1922 he published his first book , Le Dragon de bambou , ridiculing the reforms in Annam . |
| 12 | In 1694 he published his first copybook , The Pen-man 's Treasury Open 'd . |
| 13 | In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . |
| 14 | He was eighty-eight when in 1982 he held his first one-man exhibition , a retrospective at the Tate Gallery . |
| 15 | You wrote that in 1936 you bought your first painting ( still your favourite British painting ) George Stubbs 's ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ , immediately you saw it . |
| 16 | From France he went to the Alps and Italy , and in 1870–1 he made his first visit to America , where he may have encountered his father , as well as many unfamiliar trees and shrubs . |
| 17 | In 1988 I had my first one-woman show at the Barbican Centre , London . |
| 18 | In 1915 he made his first appearance at the German Opera House , Berlin . |
| 19 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
| 20 | In 1944 he won his first starring role on screen in A Canterbury Tale , directed by Michael Powell . |
| 21 | In 1909 Hoppé organized the British pictorial contribution to the vast Dresden international exhibition ; in 1910 he held his first one-man show . |
| 22 | At eight I had my first migraine ( I could not please her , I might as well join her ; they stopped soon after I left home ) , and I started to get rapidly and relentlessly short-sighted . |
| 23 | AT 2 she performed her first solo — as a bee emerging from a flower ! |
| 24 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |