Example sentences of "[pron] own first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 2 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 3 | His Carnival ( my own first choice when Building a Library for BBC Radio 3 ) , too , is alive with gaiety and passion . |
| 4 | My own first tenth and a tenth of T'zin 's . |
| 5 | ‘ A few hours ago I burned the remains of my own first born , ’ Tallis said . |
| 6 | Refer to the available photographs when reading the exercise description , and practise them on their own first before attempting a whole session . |
| 7 | Do not pull them on with the nuts , but make sure they fit on their own first , then smear copper anti-seize compound onto the wheel face and centre before fitting . |
| 8 | Those whose parents are literate in a language other than English may have observed writing in their own first language , for which there may be a different writing system . |
| 9 | The new Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) was formally inaugurated at a joint convention in February 1990 [ see pp. 37187-88 ; 37247-48 ] , and held its own first convention in May [ see pp. 37456-57 ] . |
| 10 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 11 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 12 | Nathan sat , wide-eyed and bewildered next to Ari , reminding her of her own first day aboard . |
| 13 | Liz came back accompanied by her parents , but wanting to speak to the therapist on her own first . |
| 14 | It had shaken her to see her own first name being written like that by an invisible hand . |
| 15 | Her incredulous tone amused Christina , who remembered her own first impression of the local Bajan dwellings . |
| 16 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 17 | She could not help thinking of her own first labour . |
| 18 | The result was a painting of " flying cyclamens " , one of the earliest to be sold at her own first exhibition a year later . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Schwarzkopf was another " must " even though the ticket cost a " phenomenal amount " to the girl whose own first public appearance had been in a best dress made from the contents of the poor box . |
| 20 | Every competitor should have his own first aid kit . |
| 21 | Douglas Blain , secretary of the Trust , describes his own first contact with the area , by chance coming across it in 1961 . |
| 22 | After becoming a painter in his turn , Laurent decided to continue the Babar series , publishing his own first book in 1946 . |
| 23 | He felt more duty to his mother too , because she had brought up his own first son after his wife 's death in childbirth . |
| 24 | In it , Gedge finally appears to be exorcising ghosts , and more poignantly , banishing his own first rejection to the lyrical out-tray . |
| 25 | Taylor had his own first hand problems with television during the European Championship when public relations , an accepted strength , became his Achilles heel . |
| 26 | Louis Gerstner finally made his own first major move since being appointed chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp , going outside the company again for a key executive and tapping Jerome York from Chrysler Corp to be his new chief financial officer . |
| 27 | Louis Gerstner finally made his own first major move since being appointed chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp , going outside the company again for a key executive and tapping Jerome York from Chrysler Corp to be his new chief financial officer . |
| 28 | Yet the notion of Humperdinck being capable of Strauss 's range is of course unthinkable : at the time he conducted the première of Hänsel und Gretel , in December 1893 , Strauss had written most of his tone-poems and was at work on his own first opera , Guntram . |
| 29 | His own first film was made on a minuscule budget of £500 while Maria Gibbons , Galway-based lesbian film-maker saw a movie at the New York festival filmed on a Fisher Price toy video camera ! — an edifying lesson on the art of self-sufficiency . |
| 30 | He provided quixotic endpapers for his own first editions , which later became collectors ' items , and his paintings , in oils , water-colours , and pencil , crayon , and gouache , were exhibited in the 1940s at the Leicester Galleries . |