Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club .
2 Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit .
3 The median age divides the women into two equal size groups ; one half of the women first married ( or had a first birth ) at a younger and one half at an older age .
4 Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United .
5 His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine .
6 On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission .
7 But when Mr Cheng looked at his papers and asked the first question , Hassan closed his eyes .
8 BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals .
9 In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran .
10 Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it .
11 He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 .
12 In the following years the population in the areas of West Bowling and Horton increased enormously with the growth of the worsted industry and the building of new steam-powered mills , so that in November 1881 Canon Motler established St Joseph 's as a new parish and became the first parish priest himself .
13 , and became the first lay students of Ushaw College , the Northern Catholic seminary , to train for ministry .
14 It was also the season in which he captained England at Lord 's , in the absence of W.G. Grace , and became the first captain in Test history to declare an innings closed .
15 It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world .
16 One of those interested in the opportunities for détente was Winston Churchill who was British premier once more and became the first major European statesman to advocate a relaxation of tensions with Russia .
17 He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) .
18 Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act .
19 He was one of the first proponents of detente towards eastern Europe and became the first Western head of government to receive Arab leaders such as Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Col. Kadhafi of Libya .
20 Queen Elizabeth II paid an official nine-day visit to the USA starting on May 14 , and became the first United Kingdom sovereign to address the US Congress , meeting in joint session on May 16 .
21 He made his name as mayor of West Berlin in 1957-66 , was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor from 1966 to 1969 , and became the first SPD Chancellor in 1969 [ see p. 23618 ] .
22 SUNDERLAND Harrier David Clark scored a unique double yesterday when he won Durham City Nike Destiny Run for the second year running and became the first to break 20 minutes for the four-mile race .
23 The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing .
24 He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements .
25 If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place
26 Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent .
27 George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite .
28 On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) .
29 X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club .
30 After four days they reached 80° South , and made the first depot .
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