Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second . |
| 2 | She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress . |
| 3 | The first session took place 1 week later . |
| 4 | Since one of the preparations given to the first patient contained up to 187 mg of arsenic trioxide per dose , there is a potential for fatal poisoning . |
| 5 | Lindsey reached for her pen and looked up , smiling , as the first patient walked into the room . |
| 6 | She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room . |
| 7 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 8 | 1992 also saw the establishment of two new aggregate businesses serving the European market with the opening of the new Wimpey Fleming joint venture coastal quarry in Bantry Bay , Ireland and the acquisition of a controlling interest in Severokamen , the first state owned quarrying business in the Czech Republic to be privatised . |
| 9 | Exactly how and when the first state emerged in the history of human society is a problem impossible to resolve ; and for that matter it is by no means inconceivable that embryonic forms of the state always existed as an inheritance from animal societies . |
| 10 | Bastian , the independent scholar/dealer , who organised the show together with another independent curator , Werner Spies , says that he is most pleased with the reaction of an old couple from Dresden , who on the first day said that they had been longing to see Picasso 's work for forty years . |
| 11 | So the first day had passed uneventfully . |
| 12 | Greig was gracious in defeat , saying that their play on the first day deserved every credit . |
| 13 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 14 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 15 | The first day included a series of slide presentations and guided tours of the departments . |
| 16 | The first day consisted of workshops , for members only , on pledge taking and voucher selling , with a free discussion at the end . |
| 17 | When the first day arrived , I watched the eyes of the boys grow darker . |
| 18 | Then the first man stalked forward , blasting several more shots into the car ; the radiator disappeared in a cloud of steam , the bonnet was blown off , and the car suddenly lurched downwards and circled as half the wheel nearest Howard was blown away . |
| 19 | Only with the first man had she got this wrong . |
| 20 | Almost immediately the helicopter started a transfer from the trawler 's deck , but after the first man had been winched aboard the connecting line to the helicopter parted , followed by the lifeboat 's port tow line . |
| 21 | The first man had stopped , his head still bowed , waiting for the others . |
| 22 | Then the first man came along , with talk of marriage . |
| 23 | The first man told his story . |
| 24 | What had happened ? the first man asked of Agnes . |
| 25 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ the first man asked . |
| 26 | The first man lay there , moaning . |
| 27 | As the first man neared me , he said — ‘ Come out quietly , and you wo n't get hurt . ’ |
| 28 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 29 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 30 | The accounts for the first year indicated quite clearly the recognition of the social divisions which existed at the time . |