Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or their first live-in girlfriend taught them quickly . |
| 2 | Dr Sharon Camp , who edited the Index , said : ‘ A child born in Mozambique today can expect to live only 48 years and has a one in seven chance of dying before his or her first birthday . |
| 3 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |
| 4 | According to John Landon , senior lecturer in multicultural education at Edinburgh 's Moray House College , a child who appears to be fluent in English in spite of its not being his or her first language may still be unable to cope with testing in English . |
| 5 | I reasoned that this was where I would find a small breeder advertising his or her first clutches of chicks for sale — someone who was n't big enough to justify advertising all year round . |
| 6 | Most of us did n't begin our education or our first job with plans to do what we 're actually doing today . |
| 7 | ‘ The next step is finding a home for longer-term savings for holidays , home improvements or your first home , ’ says Amanda . |
| 8 | first year of business or your first year of assessment , you made five hundred pounds profit from your business , is that what you 've got in mind ? |
| 9 | Or your first dog , where much the same applied . |
| 10 | In 1873 he married Janet Marshall ( only daughter of John Macfie of Edinburgh ) by whom he was to have five daughters , but , as the Indian climate suited neither her nor their first child , he returned to Scotland on leave and resigned in 1879 . |
| 11 | In these circumstances neither the metric coefficients nor their first derivatives have anything to say about curvature . |
| 12 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 13 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 14 | — And my first choice — Rope Jumping : Theory And Technique ( University of Nevada ) |
| 15 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |
| 16 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 17 | A pen , pencil-cases , a wallet with a pound note inside , and my first watch , a pocket Ingersoll ( this cost in today 's money , 12 pence ) . |
| 18 | Nancy did n't appear through the mist , and my first sight of her was nothing like so romantic . |
| 19 | Neither father nor mother had ever breathed a word , and my first knowledge was thrust upon me — by happening to read quite unwittingly a pamphlet — it was by Stead , exposing and giving such ghastly details of prostitution … |
| 20 | The job began to take over my life , and my first marriage ended in divorce . |
| 21 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 22 | As I 've mentioned/bragged/gloated previously I know two of the leeds youth team who won the Youth FA Cup final against the scum earlier this year at ellamd rd ( And my first venture into Mt . |
| 23 | I tried opium , and my first experience with anything really hard , using it intravenously , was when I used Omnopon which was from a lifeboat , y'know , from the life-saving equipment on a lifeboat . |
| 24 | Now I 'm , I 'm from Worksop and my first job was at Newark and my contacts now gone . |
| 25 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 26 | it 's a very sad day for me with my last test flight , I started here in nineteen eighty three and my first job was to clean up the station after the air show |
| 27 | Currently there is a bewildering variety of software available and my first task will be to suggest a simple classification . |
| 28 | By now the day was hot and bright and my first need was for lunch and a glass of wine . |
| 29 | He was sitting in his chair , smoking a pipe , and my first reaction was not favourable . |
| 30 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |