Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num ord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitterrand first went to Bonn for talks with Kohl , travelling on to Berlin and the states of Brandenburg , Saxony and Thuringia . |
| 2 | Hungary first came under Habsburg rule in 1437 , when Albrecht II of Austria was nominated by the Holy Roman Emperor , Sigismund , to succeed him . |
| 3 | When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia . |
| 4 | Since Cisco first appeared in shops last year , local hospitals have reported an unusual number of teenagers ( who tend to like the relatively weak ‘ wine coolers ’ ) checking in with alcohol poisoning after drinking the stuff . |
| 5 | JANUARY 1st dawned in Czechoslovakia and the world did not come to an end . |
| 6 | Jonathan Alexander first looked at manuscript illumination in Oxford in 1959 . |
| 7 | However that may be , it is unlikely to be coincidence that Eadric first defected to Cnut only shortly after Edmund 's takeover of the Five Boroughs in the east midlands in 1015 , and marriage to the widow of the Siferth whom Eadric had recently had murdered . |
| 8 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 9 | When Mr Graham first appeared in court reporting restrictions were lifted and Lorna Burns , for the prosecution , described how police arrived at the flats to find a man with a scarf around his face lying unconscious on the first-floor landing with a stab wound in his chest . |
| 10 | Wilson first went to Yunan , to meet the collector Augustine Henry for details of Davidia localities , then up to Ichang , which became his headquarters , and he collected Davidia material in Hupeh . |
| 11 | For the NAP , the watershed year was 1984 , when Jesse Jackson first ran for president . |
| 12 | Bilal and Samir first came to Buckinghamshire in 1987 . |
| 13 | A number of them old , dedicated members of the Party who had joined when Mussolini first came to power — fraternized much too much with the Germans . |
| 14 | When the Black Prince announced measures against him , Armagnac first appealed to Edward III ; on receiving an unfavourable response , he took the matter further and appealed to the king of France , Charles V. In this he was joined by his nephew , the lord of Albret , who lodged a similar grievance against the Black Prince . |
| 15 | Cavada Humphrey first appeared in Broadway in 1944 . |
| 16 | How the Moors of Africa First Came to Spain |
| 17 | Born in 1940 , Wilfrid ‘ Jackie ’ Edwards first came to prominence as Jamaican R&B developed into ska at the start of the '60s . |
| 18 | Joe first appeared on stage and on TV when he was just five years old . |
| 19 | In November 1976 , Mrs Whitehouse first came across edition 96 of Gay News . |
| 20 | ‘ And then one night , ’ said Raynor , his eyes unreadable now , ‘ one night there was a great banquet for Samain , and that was the night that Medoc first came to Tara . |
| 21 | The Ostrich first came to fame through the nefarious exploits of its one-time landlord , Jarman . |
| 22 | It was then that Khomeini first came to prominence . |
| 23 | Details of Gladio in Italy first emerged in July when a magistrate in Venice , Felice Casson , who was leading an inquiry into a terrorist attack on three policemen in 1972 , accidentally stumbled on Gladio 's records amongst the archives of the Italian secret service , SISMI . |
| 24 | The prototype Series F first flew in May 69 and was certified on 20 Jan 70 , becoming the first executive jet to meet the U.S. FAR Part 36 stringent anti-noise regulations . |
| 25 | Mr Pearse first arrived at Poultry on a Friday afternoon and struggled to find his way around the quiet corridors and closed doors . |
| 26 | When Richard Baxter first came to Kidderminster he by no means had any easy time of it . |
| 27 | Well what I wanted to talk about is , when Lady Th Thatcher first came into power |
| 28 | When Mrs Thatcher first came into power , she got hold of the pound note , held it up and tore it in half and then tore it into a quarter , and she said this is what the pound 's worth under the Labour government . |
| 29 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 30 | When Boy George first skipped on stage caked in make-up singing ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ? ’ ten years ago , he stuck out like a fairy on a rather drab Christmas tree . |