Example sentences of "[pron] [num ord] public [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first public performance was behind a chair — I refused to sing unless I had a chair in front of me . |
| 2 | ‘ My last public appearance , you mean , ’ Sebastian chipped in grandly , referring to his non-speaking part in his drama group 's last production . |
| 3 | The Queen Mother pulled out of her second public engagement in two days cancelling , at the last minute , plans to attend the opening of Royal Ascot . |
| 4 | THE Queen Mother today pulled out of her second public engagement in two days cancelling , at the last minute , plans to attend the opening of Royal Ascot . |
| 5 | THE Duchess of York was back to her normal cheerful self yesterday as she undertook her second public engagement since the summer 's topless photos saga . |
| 6 | THE QUEEN Mother yesterday pulled out of her second public appearance in as many days , missing the opening day of Royal Ascot for the first time in recent memory . |
| 7 | Their one common denominator is tap , and as the lessons go by we are drawn into their lives , finally sharing with them the triumph of their first public performance ! |
| 8 | The crack pilots were in a hospitality chalet at the Hampshire show site celebrating a successful rehearsal for their first public performance . |
| 9 | NEW-born baby lambs caused quite a stir in Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , on their first public outing in yesterday 's sunshine . |
| 10 | In their first public appearances these pupils performed tableaux and dances in church pageants , which were popular in the 1880s . |
| 11 | Later , Scotland United held their first public rally and attracted an estimated 3,000 people to George Square in the centre of Glasgow . |
| 12 | Those placed in an ‘ express ’ stream had even less reason for preserving a broad curriculum : like myself and my contemporaries in Cardiff High School they rattled along to their first public examination ( O level after 1951 ) at the age of fifteen , and so secured the privilege of early entry — together with the possibility of some extra time — in the sixth form . |
| 13 | ‘ The Labour party were very sorely wounded by their first public defeat and ran a campaign claiming most people were in favour of the project , ’ he added . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her ground breaking shows 5 Black Women at the Africa Centre , Black Woman Time Now and The Thin Black Line brought the work of artists such as Veronica Ryan , Sonia Boyce and Sutapa Biswas to a wider public , often taking the risk of giving women their first public exhibition . |
| 16 | This was their first public engagement this season but it was small beer compared to this coming Saturday . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But within a month of its first public performance , John had another premiere , admittedly in the modest circumstances of an experimental matinée , presented by the Royal Academy of Dancing Production Club at the New Theatre on Sunday 15 June . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | THE two foot gauge Vobster Light Railway , ‘ the new railway with a long history ’ , held its first public event on Sunday , July 19th . |
| 21 | When the University of Newcastle became independent he was its first public orator from 1963 to 1966 , and in 1966 became dean of medicine . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape . |
| 27 | At its first public meeting , attended by over 100 members , anger was voiced at the action of the socialist majority on the management committee in rushing the society into all the dangers of party politics ( SE 5 January 18 ) . |
| 28 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |