Example sentences of "first [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau was commissioned in 1749 to write on music for the Encyclopedie of Diderot and D'Alembert , which first came out between 1751 and 1765 . |
| 32 | But it was enormously popular when it first came out in 1764 , and it started a whole train of similar books which even came to include such works of genius as the Brontë sisters ' Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights . |
| 33 | I have bought Practical PC since it first came out in an attempt to help with the strange world of computers and from reading it I think I might need a 286 or 386 PC — but how can I be sure and I still have n't the foggiest idea what most of the terminology means . |
| 34 | Despite these setbacks , which essentially put Intel back on the delivery schedule it first mapped out for Pentium , Unisys is quick to say how delighted it is it chose Intel 's part over any of the RISC technologies . |
| 35 | Despite these setbacks , which essentially put Intel back on the delivery schedule it first mapped out for Pentium , Unisys is quick to say how delighted it is it chose Intel 's CISC over any of the RISC technologies . |
| 36 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 37 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 38 | The dynamic due , who wiped the floor with 35 other couples , first teamed up in 1981 and have twice represented Canada in competitions . |
| 39 | Liza , for her part , had still seemed inconsolable when she first arrived back at her unit on the edge of Salisbury Plain . |
| 40 | These physicists have systematically probed one particular puzzle of quantum mechanics , a question that Albert Einstein and colleagues Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen first raised back in 1935 . |
| 41 | Thus it was not surprising that the initiative to take up again the idea of a common market , first raised back in 1952 by the Netherlands at a ministerial meeting of the ECSC as a way of combatting the limited effectiveness of both the OEEC and the sectoral approach , as well as Monnet 's arguments for cooperation in nuclear energy , were grasped only by the six countries of little Europe . |
| 42 | The pools is how Littlewoods first began back in 1923 when John Moores , a working class lad from Manchester , made his first million with a winning blend of football and gambling . |
| 43 | It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive . |
| 44 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |
| 45 | The plan was essentially that first worked out in 1756 but it had now been elaborated and refined . |
| 46 | Andrew first lost out to Dawe in 1989 , when he was dropped after the semi-final victory over Warwickshire . |
| 47 | US aeroplanes first flew out of Upper Heyford during the war , and in 1970 a permanent base was set up there . |
| 48 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 49 | They are part of the endeavour to create the balance between ‘ financial strength and creative vitality ’ which Ms Rebuck described as the challenge facing Random House — a ‘ pure ’ trade publisher , which can not fall back on income from professional or reference publishing — when she first took over from Anthony Cheetham 18 months ago . |
| 50 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 51 | The method of argument is based on the same underlying logic as the experiment , a logic first spelled out by John Stuart Mill in the nineteenth century . |
| 52 | W w when you first er when you first went up onto the picket lines erm h how m many of you w were there then ? |
| 53 | Born in Wingham on July 28 , 1931 , John Wesley Martin ( whose mother was related to 1890s Surrey and England fast bowler Tom Richardson ) first went down to Sydney at 15 , and saw Bradman and Barnes score 234 each against England in December 1946 . |
| 54 | Hilary Robarts said impatiently : ‘ But the body , when you first went back for the torch and saw her , you were certain she was dead ? ’ |
| 55 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 56 | She looked like Kirsty when I first went off to Bengal — ‘ Menzies stopped , his own eyes watering , while Cameron let his temper sink back to normal after the gratuitous alarm . |
| 57 | The first went off at two a.m last Friday.It caused little damage to British Home Stores . |
| 58 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 59 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 60 | The first ran up to Strauss ' Life of Jesus , and struggled with the question whether the supernatural and miraculous elements in the gospels should be accepted . |