Example sentences of "[prep] their first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two unconnected events , but they present a picture of sport on television which brings the state of play in the battle for the sporting viewer into sharp perspective ; BBC , centre circle , triumphant ; ITV pushed to the wings ; and the satellite and cable companies warming to the game after their first year 's play . |
| 2 | There were a few stunners , true , but they always moved out after their first year whilst the ungainly ones became permanent fixtures . |
| 3 | After their first year of service they were normally on active duty for only two months in each year . |
| 4 | After their first foray into a national championship , Farnham ladies made a stern resolve to do better next time . |
| 5 | Table 3.2 gives the proportions of graduates in each of 30 subject categories who went on to ‘ further academic study ’ after their first degree . |
| 6 | Only six weeks after their first date , proposed and they were married at nearby Bridgenorth in October followed by a honeymoon in Singapore and Penang . |
| 7 | Firstly , users tend to contact agencies one to three years after starting to use heroin and , secondly , interviews took place over 12 months after their first contact with the two agencies concerned . |
| 8 | Eighteen years after their first issue , these Schoenberg performances by the London Sinfonietta remain hard to beat . |
| 9 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 10 | They thought it over and only after their first choice , Eli Wallach , announced he would be doing a Broadway play instead of making the film , did they give the part to Sinatra . |
| 11 | In some traditional communities , even as late as the early 1930s , unmarried girls were married off within a month or so after their first menstruation ; until then , they were kept hidden inside their homes . |
| 12 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
| 13 | Numerous are the unresolved hurts which lurk in many of us , years after their first appearance in our inner world . |
| 14 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 15 | Men who were ‘ happy ’ after their first taste of sexual intercourse 90% |
| 16 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
| 17 | A DIVORCED couple married for the second time today … 53 years after their first wedding . |
| 18 | Again , a story in Thucydides ( v.45 ) shows that the Council hears foreign ambassadors before the Assembly does ( Alcibiades persuades a Spartan delegation , after their first audience , which was with the Council , to deny at their later audience with the Assembly that they had full powers to treat with Athens ) . |
| 19 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |
| 20 | He worked at Sotheby 's and , as Louise gushingly pointed out to Constance after their first meeting , ‘ He knows absolutely everybody , darling . |
| 21 | Less than a week after their first meeting at the poetry reading , she found a message waiting for her , asking her to ring Clelia 's number , and she rang , and Clelia invited herself round to tea . |
| 22 | He had been a reporter then and it was some time after their first meeting that he had begun his campaign to highlight the plight of the poor . |
| 23 | That was April , six months after their first meeting . |
| 24 | Soon after their first meeting , Barbara met her husband-to-be Ronnie Knight and announced that she was going to Madeira for her honeymoon . |
| 25 | Safety glass will break into relatively harmless pieces when it 's hit hard , but laminated glass is much more difficult to break , and will deter most burglars after their first attempt . |
| 26 | Bonington and Lowther went back to complete the route , which they rate at around RD/TD± , two days after their first attempt . |
| 27 | Water freely in dry weather during the first two seasons , and feed plants each year with a general fertiliser ( 2oz/sq yd ) , starting immediately after their first clipping . |
| 28 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 29 | Another example , I 'm afraid , of the impertinence of conductors in supposing that composers who had second thoughts were necessarily hankering after their first versions all the time . |
| 30 | about their first wife . |