Sentence examples for shop was first from inspiring English sources

The shop was first a gift store offering a smattering of Christmas figurines and ornaments.

Cristina West, who primarily works at the fudge counter in the same shop, was first "blown away" by the convenience store when she visited it on her honeymoon.

Perhaps it's hard to imagine it now, but when the idea for the shop was first, er, conceived during a discussion in a restaurant between three friends, it really was a radical proposition.

The Take-It-Or-Leave-It shop was first a wooden shack, then a little metal shed, where people dropped off the detritus of suburban existence for recycling that was psychic as much as it was environmental.

Romney's policy shop was first formed 18 months before the 2012 election and fine-tuned in January 2012.

Go-shops were first used in private equity buyouts.

"Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories.

 In Ward 5, the Shops at Dakota Crossing now feature the District's first Costco – 28 years after that shopping center was first envisioned.

(The shop was the first in the United States to carry the brand).

Eli Mizrahi's coffee shop was the first to open in the shuk, almost nine years ago.

Leaver said the shop was the first stage in the firm's expansion into mainland China, adding: "Clearly it's not a single store strategy".