Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 2 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 3 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 4 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 5 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 6 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 7 | Typical of these was Will Zens ' To the Shores of Hell ( 1965 ) , which depicted the first landings of American Marines at Da Nang . |
| 8 | His head bent slowly down to her , his eyes burned deeper and , held immovable , she endured the first kiss she had ever received . |
| 9 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 10 | Simon stayed at home working for the Bar Examination , he passed the first part quite soon just as he had predicted . |
| 11 | On 2 November , two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation passed the first reading of a draft law on export and import of works of art . |
| 12 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 13 | Liverpool SC and Renegades shared the first leg spoils at 6–6 , and it was all square again in the second leg , which means it now goes to a three frame play-off at a date to be decided by the committee . |
| 14 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |
| 15 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 16 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 17 | In his New Year message in January 1990 Lee designated the First Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister , Goh Chok Tong , 48 , as his successor , indicating that he would take over " before the end of 1990 " [ see also p. 37085 ] . |
| 18 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 19 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 20 | Chinese sailors made the first compass over 800 years ago . |
| 21 | Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument . |
| 22 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 23 | It was he who made the first approaches … " |
| 24 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 25 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 26 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
| 27 | Simon Patiño also made the first purchases of French eighteenth-century furniture and Old Master paintings by the French School areas in which successive generations , including Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , his grandson , would collect as well . |
| 28 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 29 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |
| 30 | In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced . |