Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accolade came three months after giving birth to her first child , called Isha and she even beat her hairdressing husband , Jason to the title . |
| 2 | LETHAL Weapon 2 star Patsy Kensit , 24 , was celebrating at a London hospital last night after giving birth to her first child , a baby boy . |
| 3 | Under such arrangements , work-experience might be planned thus , taking the example of a group of catering students in their first year of full-time attendance at college . |
| 4 | Johnson was overlooked for the managerial job despite steering Cambridge to their first Coca-Cola Cup quarter-final . |
| 5 | The mid-week match in Tamworth was memorable mainly for providing Scotland with their first win in five matches . |
| 6 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 7 | She slipped , without appearing to notice it , into addressing Derek by his first name and , after some initial awkwardness , he reciprocated . |
| 8 | A new computer listening machine will treat up to 200 children with hearing problems in its first year of use . |
| 9 | She was two weeks away from giving birth to their first child . |
| 10 | The Deutschmark is flooding into the investment-starved east , and the people have taken to wearing grins with their first designer labels . |
| 11 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 12 | Kurt Weinburg 's evacuation began disastrously but , thanks to his headmaster ( who had already proved his sensitivity by introducing Kurt on his first day to the only other Jewish boy in the school ) , it turned out better than he expected : |