Example sentences of "was [verb] first [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The club is of a high standard and was placed first in the 1990 30K Pushkin-Leningrad race . |
| 3 | He was posted first to the Artillery , but then transferred to the Royal Engineers because he had a driving licence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This philosophy was developed first in the seventeenth century and it has become increasingly influential ever since . |
| 6 | Marriage remained very much an institution whereby property was transferred from one family to another — just as Aquitaine was transferred first to the Capetians and then to the Angevins . |
| 7 | Koleston 2000 Light Natural Ash Blonde was applied first to the mid-lengths and the ends for 20 minutes and on the roots for 40 minutes to change the tone and cover the grey . |
| 8 | Eighteen patients admitted to hospital after team assessment were reviewed by the research psychiatrist and included in this study , but one subject who was seen first by the research psychiatrist and admitted after that interview as a matter of urgency was excluded , leaving a study sample of 100 cases . |
| 9 | One carriageway and parapet was built first alongside the old bridge and a single tram track laid on it , reached by temporary crossovers and single track on the grass verge of the bridge approaches . |
| 10 | Stockport itself was bombed first on the night of 2nd/3rd October , with four people killed in Portwood ; pieces of shrapnel were recovered from the flat roof over the cloisters after the particularly busy night of 20th/21st October . |
| 11 | The exhibition was shown first in the United States this autumn at the National Gallery of Art in Washington where it was presented as an aesthetic vision which heralded the emergence of democracy in Greece . |
| 12 | An example is the string of demes from Tribe Five , Akamantis , which run Thorikos-Kephale-Prospalta-Sphettos and thence to the city ; the section from Thomkos to Sphettos is along an arterial road , which by Kleisthenes ' dispositions was enclosed first within the coastal , then within the in land trittys of Akamantis . |
| 13 | It was postponed first by the weak yen in 1982–85 which boosted exports and protected domestic industries from imports , and then by low interest rates and the soaring stockmarket in 1985–89 which cut financial burdens , allowed weak firms to make speculative profits to cover ordinary losses and made capital seem temporarily cheap . |
| 14 | Warburgs , which acted for BAT , was ranked first in the table , with £23.6bn of deals done in the period . |
| 15 | Twice shot down , wounded , and now a captain , he was grounded first at the War Office , later with the RFC headquarters in France , and finally at the Air Council before a posting to Washington ( now a major ) with the British Aviation Mission in June 1918 , in his twenty-second year . |
| 16 | One of 70 H–25A helicopters ordered by the US Air Force , it was reallocated first to the US Army and then to the US Navy . |
| 17 | And the youngest was bathed first to the eldest and as the young one was bathed bed , upstairs to bed , upstairs to bed , you see and so it went on . |
| 18 | My Lord Mayor , the Local Management of Schools scheme er was reviewed first in the light of consultation which went on during its first full year of operation . |
| 19 | The test was tried first on the horse who was regarded as having the lowest intelligence : a mare who lived around the family home . |
| 20 | If an item was dry and free from grease but had signs of corrosion , it was put first to the rotary wire brush to remove as much of the corrosion as possible . |
| 21 | He also wanted the schema on the Church debated as soon as possible : it was put first on the new session 's agenda . |
| 22 | Whether the cycle was discovered first by the Babylonian astronomer-priests or independently by them and Meton is uncertain . |
| 23 | He was sent first to the Benedictines at Vernon Hall , Lancashire , then in 1802 to Stonyhurst , and finally in 1806 to St Edmund 's College , Ware . |
| 24 | Dr Spock 's Baby And Child Care was published first in the United States in 1947 and in Britain in 1955 and there were mothers who boasted they had worn out several copies . |