Example sentences of "first [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first arose out of the practice announced in Mr. Brittan 's statement of 30 November 1983 of seeking the views of the judiciary on the tariff for a prisoner when he had been detained in custody for about three years . |
| 2 | It was in order to reach the Bosporus in style and comfort that Georges Nagelmackers created the ‘ Orient Express ’ which first steamed out of the Gare de l'Est in Paris in 1883 , its passengers bound for Constantinople . |
| 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 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Fitton , backed by merchant banker Henry Ansbacher , first came up with the offer six weeks ago . |
| 7 | Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 . |
| 8 | And Mark S , as the one who first came up with the idea , what would you like to say about it ? |
| 9 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 10 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 11 | The cost was less than the price of an Amstrad PCW 8256 when it first came out onto the market all of those years ago . |
| 12 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 13 | It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Hilary Robarts said impatiently : ‘ But the body , when you first went back for the torch and saw her , you were certain she was dead ? ’ |
| 18 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These last points may seem to imply a flagrant disregard of the well-known difficulty , first pointed out by the philosopher David Hume in the Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ) , of reasoning from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ ( Selby-Bigge ed. , 1952 , pp. 469–70 ) . |
| 21 | In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s . |
| 22 | She had not felt this alone and lonely since she first set out for the French battlefields over fifty years ago . |
| 23 | 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 . |