Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] first big " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's when I got my first big shock of the night for the caller was none other than Danny himself ! |
| 2 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
| 3 | Critics in America savagely panned her first big movie , Christopher Columbus : The Discovery . |
| 4 | Hanson made its first big UK acquisition in 1981 when it bought Berec , the maker of Ever Ready batteries . |
| 5 | INDIA 'S twenty-day-old minority government easily passed its first big political test yesterday , securing a parliamentary confidence vote by acclaim . |
| 6 | It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence . |
| 7 | the prodrive subaru team from Banbury scored their first big international win at the weekend … |
| 8 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 9 | Hemmed in between sea and mountains , with water before them and Pharaoh 's forces at their backs , the people of Israel meet their first big test of faith — and they panic . |
| 10 | A WELSH record company is celebrating its first big success thanks to a local band . |
| 11 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 12 | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS landed her first big break after she was sacked by pop rival Bryan Ferry . |
| 13 | It was there that he rode Evichstar in the Lincoln Handicap in 1990 — and notched his first big race victory . |
| 14 | When you win your first big one , it is a big difference . |
| 15 | Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under-nine events at the age of seven . |
| 16 | the real flying machines will be over in Swindon … the Foxhill Track stages its first big meeting of the year … all of Britain 's top Grand Prix riders are racing … |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards Wimpey won its first big oil-related job - a £10 million project to build 500 homes , a shopping centre , hospital , club house and industrial area . |
| 18 | And now he was to have his first big test as editor at a gathering at an old Big Flame haunt , the Beechwood conference centre near Leeds , a worker 's co-operative , complete with wholefood canteen . |
| 19 | Ray , 12 , from West Vale , won an audition to get his first big acting role playing Jason 's young son in a new BBC play , The Bullion Boys . |
| 20 | At twenty-three , he had his first big hit with the general public : Pineapple Poll , still a crowd-puller after three decades . |
| 21 | It is probably worth taking advice from a specialist competitions house when organising your first big competition . |