Example sentences of "first [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first parish priest was Father Kevin Daley , who at first lived at the Cathedral House until a house was bought on Sundorne Avenue . |
| 2 | Dylan Thomas first lived in Laugharne in the spring of 1938 , moving to Sea View shortly afterwards , but did not live there permanently until 1949 when he moved to the Boat House . |
| 3 | Stance for the lunge punch : this stance is usually the first taught to the new student . |
| 4 | Elections were held in June 1973 but the assembly was first paralysed by the Protestant-led ‘ workers ’ strike' and then prorogued by Parliament . |
| 5 | Many trade marks first registered under the Trade Marks Act 1875 are still in use , testifying to the importance of trade marks , including Britain 's No.1 trade mark , the BASS red triangle mark . |
| 6 | Our study is based on 6528 men and women first registered between 1 January 1972 and 31 December 1990 , providing 54355 patient years of follow up . |
| 7 | He was first registered at birth as ‘ Herbert ’ . |
| 8 | Precision Studios were first registered for BS5750 in February 1991 . |
| 9 | If the title is registered it still is n't essential to register the devolution , because personal representatives can deal with a registered title without themselves being first registered as proprietors ; but if the property is not to be disposed of forthwith , either on sale or by a vesting assent , it 's desirable to register the devolution to the personal representatives as soon as practicable . |
| 10 | The test car was a cool looking two litre multivalve model in glacier blue , first registered in October 1990 and supplied by Georgesons of Breck Road , Anfield . |
| 11 | This brought the first laughs in court and it ended the day 's proceedings . |
| 12 | Maris Otter was first listed as an approved variety by the Barley Committee of the Institute of Brewing 26 years ago and is still used by brewers such as Youngs , Brakspear and Eldridge Pope . |
| 13 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 14 | These gestures were first listed by monks in the tenth century . |
| 15 | I do not know when Elizabeth had first fallen under the spell , but I know that her friendship with Ivy did not begin until a year or two later . |
| 16 | After that he learned first to carry with him everywhere his own survival kit of razor , toothpaste and cigarettes against the likelihood of arrest , and then to survive years in prison surrounded by gaolers like characters out of his own plays , who lived by the laws of the regime 's own absurdist , reality-denying logic . |
| 17 | This is the scheme according to which material conditions give rise to class relations which at first develop in direct response to these material conditions . |
| 18 | The commission to design the memorial chapel was first given to G.F. Bodley ( 1827–1907 ) , an eminent church architect of the late-Victorian period , but Bodley passed it on to Comper who had been his most highly talented pupil . |
| 19 | This fanatical regard for esteemed works as they were first given to the public leads to intimidating variations in price . |
| 20 | Direction was first given to the work by the publication in 1978 of the Warnock Report , the results of a committee of inquiry into the education of handicapped children and young people . |
| 21 | As I said in pre presenting the Board 's report , when this matter was first given to us , we were invited to advise the general assembly on matters relating to health and healing , and that we did . |
| 22 | It has also been acutely pointed out that the title ‘ philhellene ’ , which was perhaps first given to Alexander I by writers of the fourth century , actually implies a denial that he was Greek . |
| 23 | The production was first given at the Theatre Royal in York , yet it transfers very well to the larger auditorium of the Grand . |
| 24 | In their libretto for Offenbach 's opéra bouffe , Gaieté Parisienne , which was first given on the Paris stage in 1867 , Halévy and Meilhac summed it up : |
| 25 | Indeed the basic telegraphic equations were ‘ … in their simplest form … first given by Lord Kelvin in 1855 ’ .6 Another of Kelvin 's achievements was development of the concept of inductance , the practical importance of which was first brought to the attention of engineers by ‘ … the problems experienced in … the Atlantic cables ’ .7 |
| 26 | Eventually , the ballet was first given by the University Ballet as Suite , Opus 3 , but for a revival by the Ballet Club he settled on Suite , ‘ Aus Holbergs Zeit ’ ( ‘ from Holberg 's time ’ ) . |
| 27 | Jacobi died in 1849 without publishing the result of the calculation and the explicit formula was first given by Henry Smith in his Report on the Theory of Numbers . |
| 28 | His lectures on Milton were first given in the beautiful fifteenth-century Divinity Schools , underneath the Bodleian Library . |
| 29 | The contrast between humanist and Christian values in relation to individual responsibility struck me very forcefully recently when within the same day I happened to read Free to Choose , Milton and Rose Friedman 's recent book in defence of economic freedoms , and a sermon of John Wesley , on ‘ The Use of Money ’ , first given in London in 1748 . |
| 30 | Two items , Oncques amor and Petite fleur , are first given in alternative setting played by chitarrone and harp , providing both comparisons and well placed variety of tone and texture . |