Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I ca n't say that I 've really earned this , ’ said John , taking a cup , ‘ but perhaps I can be forgiven my first day . |
| 2 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 3 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 4 | I have irresponsibly given my first preference to a candidate of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 5 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 6 | If I had read a dozen Somerset Maugham books about colonial clubs in remote settlements , I could n't have bettered my first impression of Tala-Tala 's Union Jack Club . |
| 7 | I 've enjoyed my first year as a pro despite everything . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've enjoyed my first year as a pro despite everything , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The quantity and variety of reading and writing , the mathematical ideas and vocabulary , the competence shown by many children in instrumental music , physical education , art and light crafts would have amazed my first class of children , and their teachers too . |
| 10 | ‘ Meaning that I should have trusted my first impressions of you . ’ |
| 11 | But I was married with a baby then , and , in 1949 , this was considered my first duty . |
| 12 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 13 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 14 | The clash between the demands of the Welfare State and Britain 's desire to regain her position as a great power had claimed its first victim ! |
| 15 | The new status system for racing under SARA rules has claimed its first victim . |
| 16 | And without Maurice , Shirley , two months ago , probably would n't have won her first honour . |
| 17 | No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince . |
| 18 | At 5.45 pm Gower pulled Mushtaq for two and England had won their first Test against Pakistan for 10 years , and levelled the series , with one to play . |
| 19 | and three cheers for Gloucestershire … they 've won their first championship game of the season |
| 20 | and three cheers for Gloucestershire … they 've won their first championship game of the season |
| 21 | Yet , if Souness had been as rational during the game , Spurs might not have won their first League match in six weeks . |
| 22 | THE golfer Sandy Lyle has won his first contract to design an 18-hole championship course , about 25 miles from Berlin . |
| 23 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 24 | Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 . |
| 25 | He had just caught his first glimpse of Thorsbury Manor . |
| 26 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 27 | I hope you 've enjoyed your first visit to Vi An , " said the plantation director with a forced affability . |
| 28 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 29 | MINERS at Monktonhall colliery have received their first pay cheques for almost two months but uncertainty continues to surround the pit 's future , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 30 | By then the Goulds had received their first batch of letters . |