Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy . |
| 2 | Smyth and Kilgore form a formidable half-back partnership in the City of Derry rugby team but both will be absent when the club plays its first game at its new Judges Road ground tomorrow . |
| 3 | Juniors ' new deal meets its first deadline |
| 4 | His brother , Francisco Garçia Lorca , has very finely defined the canciones , one of the most notable poetic forms used by Lorca , as a lyric in which : the poet checks his first flights in order to achieve greater purification … |
| 5 | As the tape makes its first pass , the first pair of heads scans half the tape . |
| 6 | BARRY METCALFE from Boughton Hall plays his first Wales Minor Counties cricket championship game of the season against Dorset starting at Sherbourne School tomorrow . |
| 7 | So it 's something of a treat that the Discovery has its first British airing at Motorfair . |
| 8 | But only use the name you are entitled to use ( ie say ‘ Mr Smith ’ not ‘ Bert ’ — even if your boss uses his first name ) . |
| 9 | Consideration of this question requires us first to examine what is generally understood by conservatism . |
| 10 | One girl remembers her first impression of her foster father : ‘ He had Sephardi eyes , like my mother . |
| 11 | In the Original Treatment it says : ‘ Natasha tells Lemmy that she loves him , but pronounces it as a child speaks its first words ’ |
| 12 | At Skinhead Times , we are meanwhile repackaging all of his original 18 novels , with The Complete Richard Allen Volume One — Skinhead , Suedehead and Skinhead Escapes our first compilation release this month . |
| 13 | This reaction owes its first impulse to the early days of punk , when groups like Marine , The Pop Group and A Certain Ratio first dabbled , intrigued , in funk . |
| 14 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 15 | QUORUM 's EQUAL MAC-UNDER-UNIX ADAPTOR GETS ITS FIRST SHOWING |
| 16 | Even so , vinyl receives its first notification of redundancy . |
| 17 | Germain Viatte , new Director of France 's national museum of modern art gives his first interview |
| 18 | PETER GABRIEL : ‘ Digging In The Dirt ’ world music benefactor and Genesis escapee releases his first single in five years , produced by Daniel Lanois and taken from his forthcoming album ‘ Us ’ |
| 19 | Scotland 's only world boxing champion makes his first defence of the WBO mini-flyweight title in Glasgow tonight . |
| 20 | Although well known in Spain , Gordillo this month holds his first show in the United States in the newly revamped quarters of the Marlborough Gallery . |
| 21 | This month sees their first CD album on their own R&M label ; a cassette is on sale now . |
| 22 | It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise . |
| 23 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 24 | Our action round-up this week takes us first to the world of grand prix … to meet the newest and youngest driver in formula one |
| 25 | This theory takes us first to the theme of sacrifice . |
| 26 | After the new student experiences his first free sparring fight , he returns to his daily training with an intensified ardour , determined to correct his shortcomings in order to get his fighting application up to standard for the next sparring session . |
| 27 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 28 | ‘ It would seem , ’ said Earl Robert , after a moment of courteous silence in deference to any other who might wish to speak , ‘ that as the last comer , this verdict sends me first into the lists . |
| 29 | The bill receives its first Commons reading in a fortnight . |
| 30 | Democracy cairn wins its first committee approval |