Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] first public " in BNC.

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1 When Hannah made her first public bow , she was constantly in the company of an elderly white cow called Her Ladyship and her love for this awkward beast touched a certain public soft spot — the British are well known for their protective , caring attitude toward animals .
2 This made its first public steaming debut at Cheddleton after major restoration work last September , during the successful ‘ Derby Day ’ .
3 The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 .
4 That was presumably his stage debut , because although his teacher Marjorie Sturman started the Johannesburg Festival Ballet Society about that time , it did not give its first public performance until the following year , when he was already in Cape Town and unable to get away .
5 Over the ‘ Diesel Weekend ’ the centre played host to Class 08 shunter D2138 which was operating its first public passenger train since being obtained by the line .
6 The Little Dry Thorn , another biblical play based on the story of Abraham and Sarah , published posthumously in Plays ( 1953 ) , received its first public performance in Glasgow in 1946 .
7 The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 .
8 AT the weekend , ITV weathergirl Rianna Scipio , 26 , compered her first public event , Fashion Noir , at the Park Lane International Hotel in London 's Earls Court for an audience that included Linford Christie and footballer Ian Wright .
9 The following year , 1657 , Florence — the actual birthplace of opera — also acquired its first public theatre , the Teatro della Pergola , on the initiative of the Accademia degli Immobili .
10 THE Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust is to hold its first public meeting on Thursday , June 24 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre , Postgraduate Centre , Bronglais General Hospital , Aberystwyth , giving the public an opportunity to be kept informed on the key issues which the Trust is currently facing and to hear of proposed new developments in the pipeline .
11 Gedge made his first public stage performance at Moorclose High 's performance of Gilbert and Sullivan 's Iolanthe in 1977 .
12 Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business .
13 IBM/Apple joint venture Taligent Inc chairman and chief executive officer , Joe Guglielmi , made his first public appearance last week as keynote speaker at Object Expo in New York .
14 Arnulf made his first public mark in 1133 with the dissemination of a particularly vitriolic pamphlet directed against the antipope Anacletus II .
15 That day the Brigade gave their first public display , and these events , with the rescue from a burning building as the highlight , were to continue into the 1930s .
16 Palmerston , making his first public utterance on the design of the new Foreign Office , then attacked the Government with what Manners later called ‘ a dashing rattling sort of speech , which the House cheered and laughed at ’ .
17 It was in the Elector 's private chapel here that Beethoven , a native of Bonn , gave his first public performance .
18 When they submitted their paper and Fleischmann gave his first public presentation on 28 March it was this peak alone that was exhibited ; it is shown enlarged in Figure 7 with the number of counts in the vertical axis and the energy scale along the bottom .
19 In July 1980 , AMES staged its first public demonstration , when the El Calvario church was occupied for a few hours to demand a reduction in the price of basic food stuffs .
20 ‘ Do n't repeat yourself ’ is an injunction placed upon us when we assemble our first stories and essays and make our first public utterances .
21 Waiting in the wings is the C112 supercar , powered , we now believe , by the new V12 engine and set to make its first public appearance at the Frankfurt show in September .
22 The charity 's annual conference was where she chose to make her first public appearance following the controversy and she broke down in tears at the vote of confidence they gave her .
23 A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting .
24 Later , Scotland United held their first public rally and attracted an estimated 3,000 people to George Square in the centre of Glasgow .
25 THE two foot gauge Vobster Light Railway , ‘ the new railway with a long history ’ , held its first public event on Sunday , July 19th .
26 This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 .
27 For us , Charles makes his first public appearance as a three-year-old , in the bosom of his family .
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