Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bombay boys Kambli , Amre and Sachin Tendulkar totalled 359 runs between them in their first Test appearances on their home ground . |
| 2 | Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam . |
| 3 | No fewer than seven of his siblings had died there — five of them before their first birthday . |
| 4 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 5 | However , young chaffinches that have heard chaffinch song during their first 90 days also sing a poor version of it in their first spring ( Figure 3.10c ) ; but they improve with practice until they sing a normal song . |
| 6 | ‘ I think most of us in our first tour had the impression that English conditions would be different from those in New Zealand . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't since the way Lou Gent fought against me in my first title defence . ’ |
| 8 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 9 | Correcting this at home takes a minute or two with needle and thread — but I did n't have a sewing kit with me on my first outing . |
| 10 | She named the same two hand-maids who had been with me on my first visit . |
| 11 | However , a letter is sent out to newly qualified drivers advising they have a qualified instructor with them for their first motorway trips . |
| 12 | Simply mention this offer when booking and take a copy of this magazine with you on your first visit . |
| 13 | • A Meeting Service Manager who works with you from your first call , ensuring every requirement is met to your specification . |
| 14 | The shoemaker dances with her in her first excitement and then collapses and turns into a tangle of dead leaves as she tires . |
| 15 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 16 | We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt . |
| 17 | He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting . |
| 18 | Doshi added : ‘ You could see the confidence in him in his first Test match . |
| 19 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 20 | More and more it came to be used in relations between states which were not themselves French-speaking : in 1664 the new imperial ambassador to England addressed Charles II in it at his first audience and in 1677 the king of Denmark , when addressed by a Polish ambassador in Latin , replied to him in French . |
| 21 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 22 | The weather signs in the sky of the previous evening had foretold correctly but the Ben had been kind to me on my first ascent . |
| 23 | Can you say what the best things are from your drama school experience and what has been of most value to you during your first year in the profession ? |
| 24 | Somehow we 've got to say to people we will provide this valuable service to you from your first job until your last breath , wherever you work . |
| 25 | I would like to introduce myself to you in my first article for Machine Knitting Monthly . |
| 26 | ‘ Everyone says that , ’ she whispered ‘ You know the Lady Prioress was lying when you talked to her on your first day at Godstowe ? ’ |
| 27 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
| 28 | Speaking in Brussels , where the Community dimension of the drama is becoming a major debate , the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , said : ‘ Freedom is magnetic and it is natural that the people of Eastern Europe should lunge for it at their first chance . ’ |
| 29 | Three cars went by her in her first half-hour on the road . |