Example sentences of "received [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says : ‘ I was stunned when I received my first royalty cheque . |
| 2 | I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter . |
| 3 | Such children were excluded from the date they received their first dose of the different treatment . |
| 4 | Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track . |
| 5 | As Victor Saunders points out in his chapter on the Caucasus in The Mountains of Europe ( Oxford Illustrated Press ) , of the ten highest summits , nine received their first ascent from members of the Alpine Club — admittedly including honorary member Vittorio Sella who was Italian , not British . |
| 6 | As with many of the larger sebils , the arcaded upper storey was occupied by a kuttub , a school where little children received their first lessons on the Koran . |
| 7 | The following day , Virgin received its first order for Music Box , from Nigeria . |
| 8 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 9 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 10 | Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version . |
| 11 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 12 | Earlier , in May 1939 , No 602 ( City of Glasgow ) Squadron received its first spitfire , also becoming the first Auxiliary Unit in Britain to be equipped with the new 1000 H.P. 8-gun interceptors . |
| 13 | When the measure received its first reading in Strasbourg , MEPs secured a number of changes on , for instance , the definition of polymers , safety data sheets and compulsory use of child-proof containers for dangerous substances intended for domestic use . |
| 14 | It was launched with private sector backing , received its first government funding in April , and has already achieved results . |
| 15 | The R-A-F received its first jet fighter in January ( 1944 ) Nineteen-Forty-Four . |
| 16 | The R-A-F received its first jet fighter in January ( 1944 ) Nineteen-Forty-Four . |
| 17 | The R-A-F received its first jet fighter in January ( 1944 ) Nineteen-Forty-Four . |
| 18 | France , Japan , Canada , India , the USSR and Europe all have active remote sensing programmes , and US dominance of the commercial remote sensing market received its first challenge in 1986 with the launch of the French Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre ( SPOT-1 ) . |
| 19 | Mongolia received its first visit from a Japanese Prime Minister when Toshiki Kaifu arrived in Ulan Bator on Aug. 13 at the end of his visit to China . |
| 20 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 21 | However the children were less bullied , although Olivia , who till now had run about under her mother 's feet , received her first caning the day after her sixth birthday , having grown pert in the meantime , living away from the rest . |
| 22 | Featherweight Temple forced last year 's champion Steve Hurcombe , of Lambton Street , into first-round submission with an exhibition of attacking boxing that , though short , illustrated amply why he received his first England vest recently . |
| 23 | Mayne received his first DSO for a raid on Tamet airfield , only three weeks after the initial disaster , destroying fourteen enemy aircraft and damaging ten others . |
| 24 | For his part in these attacks Mayne received his first bar to a DSO . |
| 25 | Nothing is known of his education and early life , but on 17 February 1826 he received his first certificate of suitability for a post in the excise service . |
| 26 | On the third day of his illness , Harry received his first visitor : Alan Dysart . |
| 27 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |
| 28 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 29 | In 1895 his article ‘ An Ideal Suburban House ’ , published in the Studio , exposed Scott 's talents to a wider audience and he received his first commissions from the mainland . |
| 30 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |