Example sentences of "get [pos pn] first " in BNC.

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1 When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen .
2 South bank as well 'cause that 's where I started , where I got my first board ever .
3 I got my first taste of the Masters with Tom .
4 Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands .
5 Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash .
6 I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing .
7 I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster .
8 And it was n't a shock when I got my first hit record because I was trying for that all our lives and so she backed me all the way .
9 I first became involved with releasing barn owls into the wild about two years ago , shortly after i got my first breeding pair , Barny and Mrs Barny .
10 I got my first borstal when I was about eighteen for assault on another girl .
11 Er and I , I do n't know whether that was where I got my first idea of being a nurse .
12 When I got my first laser printer many moons ago , my bank manager almost had a heart attack .
13 After acquiring the relevant paper qualifications in 1979 I got my first sales and marketing job in 1980 .
14 On the first Thursday , I got my first dose of an ‘ on-call ’ period .
15 That 's when I got my first big shock of the night for the caller was none other than Danny himself !
16 As he sat there , that 's when I got my first real look at John Russell .
17 ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile .
18 Alan explains : ‘ I got my first chance of management about 10 years ago when Ronnie McFall was in charge at the Oval .
19 I got my first one in the middle of November .
20 So I got my I got my first christmas present .
21 Around this time also Tickton got its first school .
22 Siemens and Halske , the famous electrical firm set up in 1847 , got its first capital from a cousin ; a brother was the first salaried employee and nothing was more natural than that the three brothers Werner , Carl and William should take charge respectively of the Berlin , St Petersburg and London branches .
23 The group got its first taste of the opposition to the plan when it met Ulster Unionist representatives in Belfast .
24 Pupils got on so well with the decorators when the school got its first brush-up for more than a decade that they decided to remember them in a life-size painting .
25 Audrey , the daughter of a British businessman and Dutch baroness , got her first break in 1951 with Broadway 's Gigi .
26 GEENA DAVIS got her first acting break — by posing in a shop window .
27 Ahead of them , Artemis got her first view of a fox in full flight , and found herself hesitating .
28 Sweeping down the long hill , past a blackened church with its sooty gravestones among the trees , Stanley and his passengers got their first sight of the problem .
29 Millions of television viewers got their first glimpse of the band when their photograph was featured on the Top Of The Pops run-down four days later .
30 So the little Blackpool girls got their first taste of the world of entertainment .
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