Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Les Conn : ‘ By this time , I had arranged a recording test with Decca and David had his first single released called Liza Jane which was on Vocalion . ’ |
| 2 | They drove to a point higher up the mountains where the snow was already thick , and Katherine had her first skiing lessons . |
| 3 | Ireland had a record number of cases last year , and Denmark had its first case of BSE last August : a cow imported from Scotland . |
| 4 | More wine was brought , an accordionist appeared from nowhere and everybody began to sing while she and Ludovico danced their first dance in the hastily cleared space in the middle of the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 6 | In 1946 , Trinidad and Tobago held their first elections under universal suffrage and , for these politically and culturally fragmented islands , the ensuing decade would be of the utmost importance , for it would see the emergence of a political leader who , through the Peoples Nationalist Movement , would revolutionise the political life of the colony whilst propelling it toward independence . |
| 7 | Delegations from Laos and China held their first meeting in Vientiane in August 1990 to discuss the delineation of a permanent border between the two countries ; at the close of the meeting a provisional border agreement was signed . |
| 8 | Wednesday broke their duck after 12 minutes when Nigel Worthington crossed low , and Bright saw his first effort blocked by Dmitri Kharine , but made no mistake with the second . |
| 9 | In December 1974 Camilla and Andrew had their first child — and asked Charles to be a godfather . |
| 10 | Then there are the film adaptations since 1950 , almost all of them missed opportunities , and the fluctuating fortunes of the plays in the theatre , of which Holroyd provides a compact summary — though not so compact that he does not find room for such items as a musical version of Antony and Cleopatra called Her First Roman , which opened ( and closed ) in Boston in the late Sixties . |
| 11 | Birchwood Town won 2-1 at home against East Leigh in division two , third-placed Kingsway won 6-3 against Winwick and Norland collected their first points of the season with a 1-0 home win against Wood Albion . |
| 12 | Thomas and Elizabeth lost their first child five months after the marriage ; the next , Nancy or Nany , was buried at Catherine Hill on 16 December 1773 , the day of the Boston Tea Party . |
| 13 | The ball went loose and John scored his first league goal for Derby . |