Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel Cramer got a first telephone report from Bedford in the mid-morning , long before the written record arrived . |
| 2 | Although there was some confusion between their maps and descriptions of the peak , Knox-Johnston , Bonington and Greenland expert Jim Lowther made a first attempt on the peak on 11–12 August . |
| 3 | Taylor Woodrow reported a first half loss before tax of £16m ( v £25.3m profit ) ; its dividend has been cut from 1.86p to 0.5p . |
| 4 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 5 | Over the next eighteen months , James Roose-Evans compiled a first draft based on her autobiographies and her prolific letters . |