Example sentences of "made [pos pn] first [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
| 2 | The Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna made her first practical contribution to the improvement of conditions in the countryside when she asked Nikolai Miliutin to tell her how to free the serfs on her Ukrainian estate of Karlovka . |
| 3 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 4 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 5 | The European Commission made its first concrete proposal on monetary union . |
| 6 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 7 | The United States space shuttle Atlantis made its first scheduled landing since 1985 at the Kennedy space centre , Florida , on Aug. 11 , completing a delayed nine-day mission during which a US$120,000,000 communications satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) was launched , and medical experiments were conducted on the effects of prolonged periods in space . |
| 8 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 9 | Miyazawa made his first official visit to the USA since his election as Prime Minister on June 30-July 2 . |
| 10 | On Nov. 18-20 the President of Russia , Boris Yeltsin , made his first official visit to South Korea . |
| 11 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 12 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 13 | Then the Frenchman made his first telling touch after 12 minutes . |
| 14 | On April 25-27 former King Michael made his first successful visit to Romania since his forced exile in 1945 [ for his expulsion in December 1990 see p. 37922 ] . |
| 15 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 16 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 17 | The 38-year-old Sheffield Wednesday player-manager made his first full appearance for 17 months in the 8-1 UEFA Cup rout of Spora Luxembourg in midweek . |
| 18 | NOW IT 'S THE JAMES GANG DAVID JAMES made his first full appearance in goal for Liverpool last night , in place of Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 19 | The ink was scarcely dry on the takeover agreement when he made his first inept move against me … |
| 20 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 21 | Arnulf made his first public mark in 1133 with the dissemination of a particularly vitriolic pamphlet directed against the antipope Anacletus II . |
| 22 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 23 | He learned the moves of the game at four years old , and made his first competitive appearance in Vienna two years later . |