Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] their first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here that the Germans experienced their first unpleasant surprise of the campaign . |
| 2 | Cincinnati got their first win of the season but only by 23–21 against Cleveland . |
| 3 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 4 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 5 | The home secretary , William Lamb , second Viscount Melbourne , and many other landowners were anxious to stifle any revival of agrarian disorder , and the men of Tolpuddle became their first victims . |
| 6 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |
| 7 | SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score . |
| 8 | Cycling was the craze of the era and The Cycling Travellers ' Club organized their first tour to the Continent in 1879 . |
| 9 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 10 | That day the Brigade gave their first public display , and these events , with the rescue from a burning building as the highlight , were to continue into the 1930s . |
| 11 | Arsenal won their first five matches and did not lose until the tenth . |
| 12 | NIGEL AND ELEANOR HAD THEIR FIRST SERIOUS QUARREL A FEW months later . |
| 13 | In 1899 the Secession held their first ( as an alternative to the Salon ) exhibition ; here no foreign painters were exhibited , but at the same time neither were the didactic and patriotic paintings typical of the Salon . |
| 14 | Haslemere Reserves gained their first league win since January 11th and two vital points in their fight to avoid relegation . |
| 15 | ST THOMAS More Deanery held their first ever Deanery Youth Day towards the end of last year , at St Edward 's Church Hall , in Runcorn . |
| 16 | It will be noted that 68 of the authors published their first related paper in the Scottish Journal of Geology . |
| 17 | Sixty-eight of the authors published their first related paper in the Scottish Journal of Geology . |
| 18 | In the fourth division Hereford scored their first league win of the year . |
| 19 | On May 2 the FMLN mounted their first major offensive since November 1989 [ see p. 37037-38 ] , attacking military posts and dynamiting electricity pylons throughout the country and penetrating into the exclusive suburb of Escalón in the capital , San Salvador . |
| 20 | Republic of Ireland U-21 player Byrne , from Dublin , was the star of the show as Bangor scored their first ever Irish Cup win over Linfield to reach the semis for the first time in 25 years . |
| 21 | Newcastle were one-nil up and rising when Blackburn posed their first threat of the afternoon , in the 41st minute . |
| 22 | Blackburn suffered their first defeat of the season in midweek when lost 3-2 at home to Everton . |
| 23 | ABERDEEN scored their first victory at Parkhead in three seasons when a Mixu Paatelainen goal in the second half gained them the spoils today . |
| 24 | Devon suffered their first defeat of the season at the hands of Dorset , with Roebuck recording a pair as Julian Shackleton took 7 for 57 in Devon 's second innings . |
| 25 | However , when JS opened their first self service shop in Croydon in 195O , there were only two types of film available — a permeable film and a moisture-proof film that could be used to wrap products such as biscuits . |
| 26 | An apparent breakthrough came when the Gardners taught their first chimpanzee , Washoe , the sign language used by deaf and dumb people . |
| 27 | In Hong Kong yesterday officials of the Group of Seven ( G7 ) industrialised countries began their first meeting of a weekend session with the discussion believed to focus on emergency aid for Russia . |
| 28 | And the week the Beatles released their first single , a cinema legend was born … the first James Bond film , Dr. No , with newcomer Sean Connery and a daringly bikini-clad Ursula Andress . |
| 29 | The Australians won their first VC of the campaign in a tank battle outside a village called Marjayoun in the south of the country which is now the headquarters of Israel 's proxy South Lebanon Army militia . |
| 30 | In 1978 members of the Committee staged their first hunger strike , followed by a three-month occupation of the Red Cross offices in San Salvador to demand the release of all political prisoners . |