Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 2 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 3 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 4 | ‘ concluded that the submissions raised in it were not of sufficient substance to justify referring the same to the judiciary or altering the first review date . |
| 5 | This was not , however , immediately apparent to those photographers , instrument makers and lanternists who had been fired up to experiment with moving pictures after hearing reports of Edison 's Kinetoscope , the original what-the-butler-saw machine , or witnessing the first projection of films made by the Lumière Brothers in 1896 . |
| 6 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 7 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 8 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 9 | But when Mr Cheng looked at his papers and asked the first question , Hassan closed his eyes . |
| 10 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 11 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |
| 12 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 13 | He won six amateur titles from 1926 to 1934 and became the first Canadian to win the United States amateur crown , in 1932 . |
| 14 | Two months later Deborah passed the Pony Rider tests and became the first Brownie in the Pack to win the badge with the pony on it . |
| 15 | In the following years the population in the areas of West Bowling and Horton increased enormously with the growth of the worsted industry and the building of new steam-powered mills , so that in November 1881 Canon Motler established St Joseph 's as a new parish and became the first parish priest himself . |
| 16 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 17 | It was also the season in which he captained England at Lord 's , in the absence of W.G. Grace , and became the first captain in Test history to declare an innings closed . |
| 18 | Turn your attention to the text , and highlight the first heading . |
| 19 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 20 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 21 | For two neighbouring points on the ( p , T ) diagram this means Expanding by Taylor 's theorem about and using the first equality gives where are changes in v and S respectively at the transition . |
| 22 | After four days they reached 80° South , and made the first depot . |
| 23 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 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 | Despite this , Bennett led seven Hudson aircraft , with captain , co-pilot and wireless operator and made the first formation delivery flight across the Atlantic in November 1940 ; similar formation flights followed at regular intervals . |
| 26 | But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure . |
| 27 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 28 | Mr Gibson said : ‘ My wife Pat phoned to tell me what happened and I just packed my bag and got the first flight . ’ |
| 29 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 30 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |