Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] first [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |
| 2 | Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash . |
| 3 | Manufacturers — such as Compaq Computer Corp , which rushed to discuss its Pentium plans in general terms , say they expect their first Pentium machines to list for as little as $4,500 , half the price set for early model 80486 machines in 1989 . |
| 4 | Manufacturers — such as Compaq Computer Corp , which rushed to discuss its Pentium plans in general terms , say they expect their first Pentium machines to list for as little as $4,500 , half the price set for early model 80486 machines in 1989 . |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
| 6 | The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly . |
| 7 | The city 's Evening Standard produced its first Saturday paper in 16 years . |
| 8 | They were from Orpington , and who had travelled from Devon to attend their first QT day . |
| 9 | THE ADVENTURES make their first UK appearance since '88 with shows at . |
| 10 | Champions Hampshire are at home to Dorset in the first round on June 24 , while Durham make their first NatWest Trophy appearance as a first-class county against Ireland in Dublin . |
| 11 | So much depends on Wright , still seeking his first England goal , and Shearer , who play together for only the second time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , has bought its first Poussin drawing , the ‘ View of the Tiber Valley ’ , attributed to Claude until Blunt gave it to Poussin , ( £156,450 , est. £70–100,000 ; NACF , NHMF , the Hulme Fund , and the Friends of the Ashmolean and the Purchase Grant Fund support ) . |
| 14 | The story goes that , in 1963 , she opened her first Sunday Painters Art Studio in Burbank , California . |
| 15 | Don Cribb from Systems and Equipment Engineering Department , was attempting his first London Marathon . |
| 16 | He was about to buy his first Hispano-Suiza , the automobile of kings , which would be driven by a liveried chauffeur . ’ |
| 17 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is set to play his first UK dates since the Tunnel Of Love Tour stopped off at Wembley Stadium in 1988 . |
| 18 | Stevenson , likely to jostle only with Jimmy Kirkwood as Garvey 's Player-of-the-year , ought to win his first Ulster senior cap against Munster on Friday night . |
| 19 | Harris opened his first London gallery in 1928 when only twenty years old , concentrating largely on Spanish Old Masters , and held his last and widely acclaimed exhibition ‘ From Greco to Goya ’ in November 1938 , during the Spanish Civil War , all proceeds going to the Red Cross . |
| 20 | I remember my first Wednesday in the office at Wakefield . |
| 21 | Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp finally shipped its first Cray-3 supercomputer . |
| 22 | Colorado Springs-based Cray Computer Corp finally shipped its first Cray-3 supercomputer . |
| 23 | I remember their first UK showcase . |
| 24 | Loops of wiring and cable ran overhead , loosely tacked at intervals to the unpainted ceiling ; it was the kind of Who cares , no-one 'll see it protocol that had applied behind the scenes in the shopping mall where she 'd landed her first Saturday job . |
| 25 | JOE JACKSON Over from New York to give his first London performances for three years . |
| 26 | LOWLY Brightlingsea United came agonisingly close to recording their first Jewson League Premier Division win of the season against top of the table Wisbech . |
| 27 | UK systems integration specialist turned Sparc compatible builder , Array Technology Ltd , Camberley , Surrey , has introduced its first Sparcstation 2 system . |
| 28 | UK systems integration specialist turned Sparcsystems builder , Array Technology Ltd , Camberley , Surrey , has introduced its first Sparcstation 2-compatible system . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has shipped its first Rios RISC-based SP1 parallel processor , and the machine has gone to Cornell University , New York State , which has a $12.3m grant from the New York State Urban Development Corp for high-performance computing research . |
| 30 | IBM Corp has shipped its first Rios RISC-based SP1 parallel processor , and the machine has gone to Cornell University , New York State , which has a $12.3m grant from the New York State Urban Development Corp for high-performance computing research . |