Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] their first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few stunners , true , but they always moved out after their first year whilst the ungainly ones became permanent fixtures . |
| 2 | Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night 's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela , where the Rangers would land that summer . |
| 3 | The pace the pattern was set seconds later , as Oxford roared back with their first attack . |
| 4 | ITALY , weakened by injuries and suspension , could face a torrid time in tonight 's World Cup qualifier against a Portuguese side fired up for their first home match in the series . |
| 5 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 6 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 7 | BREDBURY , league leaders in the Meller Braggins Cheshire Cricket League , went down to their first defeat of the season at Cholmondley on Saturday . |
| 8 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |