Example sentences of "[vb past] their first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 22 May 1986 Palmer built their first electrochemical cell to try and force hydrogen into metals . |
| 2 | Given that approximately 500,000 children left school each year , the figure of 42,000 represents about 8% of all school-leavers who found their first full-time job through the juvenile exchange system , though a far greater number registered . |
| 3 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 4 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 5 | Gedge glibly announced : ‘ We 're The Wedding Present , from Leeds , ’ and they then crashed into ‘ ( The Moment Before ) Everything 's Spoiled Again ’ , ‘ White ’ , ‘ Pretty Blue High ’ , ‘ Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room ’ and the song that eventually became their first single , ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ . |
| 6 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 7 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 8 | It was here that the Germans experienced their first unpleasant surprise of the campaign . |
| 9 | While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success . |
| 10 | the prodrive subaru team from Banbury scored their first big international win at the weekend … |
| 11 | Gloucester 's hockey team scored their first national league win last week … 4-0 on sunday they 're at home to Cambridge City … |
| 12 | On May 2 the FMLN mounted their first major offensive since November 1989 [ see p. 37037-38 ] , attacking military posts and dynamiting electricity pylons throughout the country and penetrating into the exclusive suburb of Escalón in the capital , San Salvador . |
| 13 | In Europe , the British mounted their first opposed raid against Vaagsö Island ( central Norway ) that December . |
| 14 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ They received their first proper wage slips on Saturday and half the players were not pleased . |
| 16 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said Portsmouth faced their first real test after knocking out Third Division Leyton Orient and Exeter . |
| 17 | A TENTATIVE economic recovery began in the shops last month , when retail sales showed their first year-on-year rise since last September and their strongest increase since May 1992 , the month after the last general election , the Confederation of British Industry claimed yesterday . |
| 18 | In May they released their first single , ‘ Eleven O'Clock Tick Tock ’ , and spent the rest of the summer touring Britain . |
| 19 | And the week the Beatles released their first single , a cinema legend was born … the first James Bond film , Dr. No , with newcomer Sean Connery and a daringly bikini-clad Ursula Andress . |
| 20 | It 's fifty years since they delivered their first hot lunch . |
| 21 | When the 1992 intake of new MPs took their first tentative steps round Westminster on Monday morning , the place was in turmoil . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the British national championships at Newcastle saw their first upset when the England international Martin Bodimeade fell 9-5 , 9-2 , 9-3 in the second round to the Scottish No.2 , Colin Keith . |
| 23 | That day the Brigade gave their first public display , and these events , with the rescue from a burning building as the highlight , were to continue into the 1930s . |
| 24 | The foreign ministers , naturally under dominant Vietnamese influence , met to discuss the establishment of ‘ a region of peace , independence , freedom , neutrality , stability and prosperity ’ , and they issued their first joint communiqué since 1975 . |
| 25 | Mark Petchey , Neil Broad and Sean Cole all won their first round matches to join their team mates with four of them moving into the quarter-finals . |
| 26 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday . |
| 27 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday to give themselves a chance of winning the North West group . |
| 28 | Tonight we pay tribute in the Guinness Spot to the wealth of jazz talent emanating from Northern Ireland in a reunion between two old friends who performed their first professional engagement together . |
| 29 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 30 | NIGEL AND ELEANOR HAD THEIR FIRST SERIOUS QUARREL A FEW months later . |