Example sentences of "first [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all Stonehenge was thousands of years old before the first bus-load pulled up . |
| 2 | The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives . |
| 3 | The first bombs went off while they were still walking around , and although the garrison fired away merrily , in the mêlée no shots came near the raiders . |
| 4 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |
| 5 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 6 | At first Wadland picked out mothers and rang claiming to be holding their daughters hostage . |
| 7 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 8 | The first album came out and nothing happened ; we were n't sure whether to go on the road and everybody was very depressed . |
| 9 | I 've got the first batch came back this morning , so now I , I 've actually got the examples I can do it , it 's not , no problem . |
| 10 | TOYOTA 'S first cars rolled off a new assembly line in Derbyshire yesterday — as Ford announced 1,180 job losses . |
| 11 | When the first $1m came in , followed by more , Calero therefore had no idea who it was from , and did not ask . |
| 12 | While waiting for an ambulance it is possible that first aid carried out immediately would save a patient from choking or bleeding to death . |
| 13 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 14 | The derailment at Dovey was interesting in that the back bogie of the 37/4 and front bogie of the first coach came off with a bump . |
| 15 | The first campaign centred around a sex education film entitled Growing Up , made by a Dr Martin Cole , of Birmingham University . |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds corny , but as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one , ’ said Blanc , whose first marriage broke up during the difficult years when he was struggling to build up his reputation . |
| 17 | Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’ |
| 18 | This edition builds upon the First Edition issued in early 1988 and takes account of reports on the operational experience of violence in the Department since that date . |
| 19 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 20 | The first bomb went off at 9.20pm near to the Commercial Union building in St Mary Axe as City workers were heading home after celebrating the Tory win . |
| 21 | Security guard Stan Murray was at an office car park entrance when the first bomb went off . |
| 22 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 23 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 24 | Three fire bombs had already been found and made safe when the first device went off , shortly after two this morning . |
| 25 | As this first meeting went on , the issue which was increasingly to feature in the review was raised : performance in public examinations . |
| 26 | Would first statements made up to 28 February 1994 be deemed to exceed 18 months ? |
| 27 | Well that first match kicked off at 6 0'clock , the latest score is Samdoria 1 , Rael Sociadad 1 . |
| 28 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 29 | ‘ Sure ’ the first interrogator went on ‘ but you are a career soldier trained to be at your best when things are popping — right ? |
| 30 | Irina , whose first husband walked out , leaving her with a toddler and a four-month-old baby , has another view : ‘ I owe everything to my second husband . |