Example sentences of "their first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was to prepare the men for their first actual jump from an aircraft . |
| 2 | The British had reserved their first great station gestures for the interior of the subcontinent . |
| 3 | One of their first live reviews appeared in Sounds in November 1985 . |
| 4 | THAT PETROL EMOTION , recently dropped by Virgin , make their first live appearances next month since finishing their new LP . |
| 5 | Their first live performance was this year , and a rave review in a leading British music publication lead to many record company enquiries . |
| 6 | After their first post-Wales reunion , on the evening of 19 September '98 , he wrote to her fearfully about the results of their intimacy : |
| 7 | Palace hope to clinch their first Premier League home win against the only side Steve Coppell 's men have failed to beat since returning to the top flight in 1989 . |
| 8 | INJURY-HIT Crystal Palace go in search of their first Premier League win today at Everton with boss Steve Coppell fearing the Peter Beardsley factor . |
| 9 | Liverpool Sefton beat Bowdon 2-1 at Wyncote to record their first Premier League win , but they lost 2-0 to Ben Rhydding in the HA Cup Tie . |
| 10 | Liverpool Sefton beat Bowdon by 2-1 at Wyncote to record their first Premier League win , but they lost 2-0 to Ben Rhydding in the HA Cup . |
| 11 | The Mediterranean non aligned states held their first regional conference in Malta in 1984 ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 13 | The boys were about to go into the building again after their first successful looting when suddenly somebody shouted : ‘ I Tedeschi , i Tedeschi arrivano ! ’ |
| 14 | In that respect their Lordships were wrong ; by the time the Mantela docked Koraloona would have gained , at the ripe old age of twenty-four years , four months and seven days , their first assistant medical officer . |
| 15 | Thereafter Helen frequently walked to meet him or to accompany him on his return home across Wandsworth Common and on January 1896 they had their first long walk to Richmond . |
| 16 | The young can not learn how to make their first long journey by following their parents as swans do , for no adult eels travel east across the Atlantic from the Sargasso . |
| 17 | Most patients with malignant biliary obstruction in whom a large diameter ( 10 or 11.5 FG ) plastic stent is inserted , die from their tumour while their first stent is still patient . |
| 18 | Leeds have protested that Stuttgart broke the rule of playing four non-nationals instead of three in their first round clash and UEFA bosses will make their decision today . |
| 19 | Mark Petchey , Neil Broad and Sean Cole all won their first round matches to join their team mates with four of them moving into the quarter-finals . |
| 20 | I predict they will take at least one of the rubbers in their first round match against France , the current Davis Cup holders , at the end of this month . |
| 21 | True , Leeds do n't expect to score 10 against Stuttgart , their first round European opponents this season — but Collins believes Wilkinson can plot the downfall of the Germans . |
| 22 | Even here in Princeton ( only about 7,500 students ) the soccer team managed to draw a couple of thousand people to watch their first round end of season game . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Worcestershire have been playing Nottinghamshire in their first round match . |
| 24 | They take a three nil lead to Swansea for the second leg of their first round tie . |
| 25 | Ireland 's World bronze medallist went down 8–7 in a titanic battle with Russia 's Albert Pekov in their first round clash . |
| 26 | were trailing 18–0 in their first round cup-tie Bradford and went desperately close to another major upset against a North Division One side , but York ended four points short of victory at 18–15 . |
| 27 | were trailing 18–0 in their first round cup-tie Bradford and went desperately close to another major upset against a North Division One side , but York ended four points short of victory at 18–15 . |
| 28 | Needless to say , Liverpool are aiming to better their first round performance in appalling weather when their side was reduced to 10 men and went down 4-2 . |
| 29 | Given that approximately 500,000 children left school each year , the figure of 42,000 represents about 8% of all school-leavers who found their first full-time job through the juvenile exchange system , though a far greater number registered . |
| 30 | The staff of Pravda , the leading Soviet newspaper , declared themselves independent of the Communist Party and published their first non-partisan issue on 31 August . |