Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] their first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1983 budget increased the ceiling from £25,000 to £30,000 , on the grounds that the lower limit was ‘ beginning to hinder a growing number of families who want to buy their first home , or to move ’ ( Hansard , 15 March 1983 , cols 145–6 ) . |
| 2 | Palace hope to clinch their first Premier League home win against the only side Steve Coppell 's men have failed to beat since returning to the top flight in 1989 . |
| 3 | Yet the evidence from their earliest word uses , their requests for the names of things , and their repairs to their own utterances , all indicate that they opt for Conventionality as they begin to use their first language . |
| 4 | From the teaching point of view , it is worth noting that Thomas is not under the pressure that children normally face in school of having to get their first thoughts down on paper in a finished , final form . |
| 5 | Employed married women tend to delay their first and second child , compress their childbearing into their late 20s and the second five years of their married life , and avoid third and subsequent births ( compared to housewives ) ( ni Bhrölchain 1986b ) . |
| 6 | Supporters in the west were asked to give their first preference to Harry West and their second to John Taylor ; those in the east , vice versa . |
| 7 | But the giant Czech goalkeeper is n't worried by the pressures of playing in front of a 30,000 crowd and a TV audience of two million as Kevin Keegan 's players bid to stretch their First Division lead to at least 10 points . |
| 8 | Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete . |
| 9 | In the country as a whole a staggering two-thirds of black babies are born to unmarried mothers ; 43% of black children are , by government criteria , born poor ; many do not live to see their first birthday . |
| 10 | According to a spokesman for the Birmingham Midshires building society , which still provides finance for self-build schemes , people are now encouraged to sell their first homes before they start building a new one . |
| 11 | In fact , a lot of bands starting out these days have to pay to play their first gigs . |
| 12 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 13 | Hunter are hoping to have their first Channel 32 on the pool at Earls Court . |
| 14 | My friends had to have their first sit-down in sight of the car . |
| 15 | But as shown in Fig.3 b for the sCD2 and CD4(D1D2) structures superimposed with respect to their second domains , a tilt of some 45° from this rod axis is required to superimpose their first domains . |
| 16 | This later took the form of a public advertisement in which UUUC supporters were urged to distribute their first preferences evenly as between five candidates on a geographical basis according to the polling stations at which they voted . |
| 17 | This means they have to spend their first days of life in hospital and ca n't go home for several weeks . |