Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for [pos pn] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a capable finisher and his experience of the big occasion will come in useful in a Maghery side gunning for their first title . |
| 2 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 3 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 4 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 5 | I have Phil to thank for my first break on the Cutters . |
| 6 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 7 | Bottom of the table Wrexham travel to Buckley with both teams looking for their first win of the season . |
| 8 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 9 | Founded by IBM 's famous Scots-Irish Watsons , Greenock foundered for its first years , until IBM learned that the best people to run a factory in Scotland were usually Scots . |
| 10 | VINNIE Jones returned for his first match of the season and celebrated his comeback after injury with the goal which earned Wimbledon a point . |
| 11 | The first sign was slogans daubed on the wall of a kuttub , a religious school where small children went for their first instruction in the Koran . |
| 12 | I watched the official video for our first year in Div 1 ( when chappie scored 31 goals ) again over the weekend … |
| 13 | That sort of system is not so easy for actors looking for their first job but easier when you are well known . |
| 14 | Maghery 's Dermot Forker is the only survivor from that game , and his vast experience should be vital as his colleagues bid for their first county championship . |
| 15 | The eldest boy was endowed with the family name of John and the over-high expectations that the family had for their first sons . |