Example sentences of "[vb past] their first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest frequency was recorded for women who bore their first child ( nulliparous ) at ages 35–39 ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 2 | Newcastle were one-nil up and rising when Blackburn posed their first threat of the afternoon , in the 41st minute . |
| 3 | With poetic licence he described their first meeting : |
| 4 | The nonconformist movement built their first chapel in 1821 , with four having been erected over the years for the Primitive , Congregational , Baptist and Methodist movements , only the latter still regularly meeting . |
| 5 | In March of this year they entered their first dog show at Ardingly and Tammy [ the brown one ] did quite well , and Mike and Anne were hooked . |
| 6 | St Agnes introduced the Poor Clares into the Convent of St Saviour and became their first abbess in 1235 . |
| 7 | In pursuit of these aims the president and his staff proposed bold innovations in economic policy , the introduction of which became their first priority . |
| 8 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 9 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 10 | Wife Nicky and the newly-elected Tory MP for Falmouth proudly propelled their first baby , five-week-old Madelaine , into the limelight for the first time . |
| 11 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 12 | How many people do you know who failed their first driving test ? |
| 13 | When the house was ready , the men made their first journey south . |
| 14 | Ipswich made their first substitution after 75 minutes when Whelan came on for Bozinoski . |
| 15 | Once the English champions found their way into the Canberra half , 27 minutes into the game , they made their first attack count . |
| 16 | They made their first mistake when they tried to sell some ‘ stolen ’ emeralds to a Hatton Garden dealer . |
| 17 | The three Portuguese pharmaceutical wholesalers acquired in the first half of 1992 made their first contribution , but disposing of the nappy-making business cost UniChem £2.4 million below the line . |
| 18 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 19 | The three crews , all named after former Grand National winners , made their first attempt at the unsocial hour of eight in the morning . |
| 20 | At around the same time , Orkney Islands Council officials made their first attempt to remove the Reporter to Orkney 's Children 's Panel , Mrs Katherine Kemp , from office . |
| 21 | When the Chinese made their first attempt , in preparation for the invasion of Indo-China , to bring the various Vietnamese factions together and create a Vietnamese Revolutionary League ( abbreviated to Dong Minh Hoi ) members of the ICP were specifically excluded . |
| 22 | Police were anxious to avoid the ugly scenes when the two boys made their first appearance in court nine days ago . |
| 23 | The woodcut reproducible illustration , and even wooden letters for printing , made their first appearance in China , but it was as late as the fourteenth century in Europe before paper ( brought to Europe by the Arabs in the late twelfth century , when the traditional material of parchment was in short supply ) began to be extensively used for the new technology of xylography : repeatable woodcut designs in fabrics extended to rapidly reproducible illustrations . |
| 24 | Sweeping down the long hill , past a blackened church with its sooty gravestones among the trees , Stanley and his passengers got their first sight of the problem . |
| 25 | One of the most popular activities was the rifle range , where would-be soldiers got their first opportunity to fire real guns . |
| 26 | Millions of television viewers got their first glimpse of the band when their photograph was featured on the Top Of The Pops run-down four days later . |
| 27 | This aircraft is historically significant because , according to a Museum official , many famous Air Force leaders such as Generals Arnold and Vandenberg and Mr Larry Bell , founder of Bell Aircraft , got their first jet ride in this very aircraft . |
| 28 | So the little Blackpool girls got their first taste of the world of entertainment . |
| 29 | One Saturday last November , they got their first taste . |
| 30 | The Australian tourists got their first taste of county cricket against Worcestershire at New Road today . |