Example sentences of "first [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAVE first heard of the danger of a possible sale in September and immediately issued a press release : |
| 2 | Bobby Anscombe , who had reacted badly when he had first heard of the deaf-aid idea , was forced to admit at the end that it might work . |
| 3 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 4 | The sky remained clear and the first starts of the evening were already apparent in the inky space above our heads . |
| 5 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 6 | Almost certainly it would have been the executors , after consultation with the family , as not even a cabinet-maker used to the undertaking trade would have been so bold as to have proceeded with such an elaborate item without having first enquired of the executors . |
| 7 | It 's one of the first meets of the season . |
| 8 | Mr Nichol was first accused of the attempted murder of Mrs Chandler in October 1990 . |
| 9 | Two classes of category were identified : the first consisted of the 41 types occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 2 word positions , to capture those words in close grammatical construction with the node . |
| 10 | Boudjema , who is of Algerian descent , says she was totally shocked when she first heard of the Affair of the Scarf . |
| 11 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 12 | First finds of the day |
| 13 | The first consists of the Proconsulidae at node 0 and includes Proconsul , for which the best evidence is available . |
| 14 | The nucleus of the first consists of the preludes on chorales associated with the Lutheran mass ( Kyrie and Gloria ) and the larger ( pedaliter ) catechism preludes . |
| 15 | When the case was first heard last week , the judge , Harold Wilson wanted to know why police were n't called in in 1990 when Social services first knew of the abuse . |
| 16 | From the moment I first thought of the play , I thought he 'd be ideal for the part . |
| 17 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 18 | That is exactly what he did — and at 7.30pm on Wednesday night police first learned of the daring raid . |
| 19 | Kanemaru reportedly said , however , that he had first learned of the involvement of Inagawa-kai on Dec. 23 , 1987 , whereas Watanabe had already stated that Kanemaru had called on him in September 1987 to ask Ishii to suppress the Nihon Kiminto campaign . |
| 20 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 21 | The ‘ institutionalist ’ school ( comprising , inter alia , Gurley and Shaw 1960 , Tobin 1963 , Radcliffe 1959 ) first warned of the possible dangers of ‘ traditional ’ monetary theory , which has promulgated the view that the financial system is essentially a static equilibrium system , a mere unchanging backdrop against which policy operates . |
| 22 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 23 | 4.1 The period of the licences shall begin on the date of this Agreement and end on whichever is the first to occur of the following : |
| 24 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 25 | 1751 " And in regaird Shawfield was in use to ffurnish three setts of News papers for this Country , till of Late that the same was withdrawn , And that at first Erecting of the post office here , Shawfield agreed to Continow the same with us for our Encouragement in keeping up of a post . |
| 26 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |