Example sentences of "[noun] first [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellant Christou first came in with Wright on 15 January 1991 . |
| 2 | The southern Pennines has the highest calculated load of nitrogen at 25 — 55kg/N/ha , John Lee from Manchester University and Sarah Woodin of the NCC have shown that sphagnum peat bogs first killed off by sulphur dioxide now can not recover because of high levels of nitrogen . |
| 3 | Foxing was a term first used in about the 1840s , probably because the brownish-yellow spots and blotches reminded some fox-hunting bibliophile of his quarry in the countryside . |
| 4 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 5 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 6 | Du n no how Maggie first sat down with him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Overreacting with shock and dismay when the child first comes out with a four-letter word is the best way to ensure he or she uses it again and again . |
| 9 | Mr Choyce adopted the technique from work first carried out by Georges Baikonn in France . |
| 10 | A perfect day 's drive would be a visit to the islands on Lake Constance , including Mainau , which is famous for its tropical and exotic plants first planted back in 1827 . |
| 11 | When The Clash first met up with beat poet Allen Ginsberg in '81 , Joe asked , ‘ Well Ginsberg , when you gon na run for president ? ’ |
| 12 | US aeroplanes first flew out of Upper Heyford during the war , and in 1970 a permanent base was set up there . |
| 13 | What happened was that the water first backed up behind the lipped edge of the top step , then over-flowed , and spilled with increasing force , in a sort of hydro-chain-reaction , down each subsequent step to the bottom of the channel . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |
| 16 | In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s . |
| 17 | When the two partners first set up on their own — according to Byrne , with only $5000 capital and giving up a secure future — they did so under the guise of an employment agency , so that they would not appear to be in direct competition with their ex-employers . |
| 18 | When the call first came in from Fraxilly , I did n't accept it . |
| 19 | As a Russian-trained former officer in the Syrian Army , he had seemed to Donleavy a potentially useful source of background military and political intelligence from the moment Coleman first reported in about him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The opening episode of ‘ The Daleks ’ , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ premiers the use of Inlay in Doctor Who for one of the most historic shots in the programme 's history — the awesome moment when the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan first look down at the glittering towers of the Dalek city , gleaming , some miles distant , in the rays of the setting sun . |
| 22 | Andrew first lost out to Dawe in 1989 , when he was dropped after the semi-final victory over Warwickshire . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 25 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 26 | The full power of trance possession first came through to me in Bali while watching the all-night shadow plays by the great dalangs , or puppet-masters , such as Madra . |
| 27 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 28 | 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 . |