Example sentences of "receive [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 73 The spreading cult of Sigmar the Patron God of the Empire receives its first Grand Theogonist , Johann Helsturm . |
| 2 | An all-glass tank was therefore an obvious choice and here I received my first pleasant surprise but more of this later . |
| 3 | After a series of goldfish bowls and acid jars at 10 years old I received my first proper aquarium a 30″ × 12″ × 12″ steel frame tank for my birthday . |
| 4 | SOME 4,000 depositors who lost £42m in one of Britain 's biggest bank crashes are to receive their first interim payment following an £11.7m judgment against fugitive city financier Jim Raper in the Manx Chancery Court yesterday . |
| 5 | Page 30 Manx payouts : Some 4,000 depositors who lost £42m in one of Britain 's biggest bank crashes are to receive their first interim payment following an £11.7m judgment against City financier Jim Raper in the Manx Chancery Court yesterday . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ They received their first proper wage slips on Saturday and half the players were not pleased . |
| 7 | It was only in the 1850s , while Prussia was ‘ filling in ’ the gaps of its network by connecting up places like Danzig , that Warsaw received its first major rail connections . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 10 | The Korean armistice was signed in July 1953 ; the first Soviet hydrogen bomb was tested in August ; the RAF received its first British atomic bombs into service with the V Force in November ; and at the turn of the year , Foster Dulles announced the United States ' twin policies of ‘ massive nuclear retaliation and the containment of the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 11 | Three years later he received his first major commission , to decorate Bodley 's new church of St John , Tue Brook , Liverpool . |
| 12 | Sam is now seven , and received his First holy communion at this convent on the next day . |
| 13 | In between comes a short pièce d'occasion by Brahms , written in 1853 as a surprise birthday present for the violinist Joachim , and receiving its first commercial recording . |