Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 2 | I had won my first major title . |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 4 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 5 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 6 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
| 7 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 8 | IN THE closing years of the twentieth century , the wind-swept island of Foula , 20 miles west of the main Shetland group , has reported its first recorded case of vandalism . |
| 9 | Hartnell have designed their first bridal collection , prices start at ‘ 1,250 for a short dress and £1,950 for a long dress . |
| 10 | He had forgotten our first fleeting encounter . |
| 11 | The hospice staff have now completed their first full week in their new home at Harewood House and received more donations of furniture and equipment , including a fridge from Mr and Mrs Haynes who have already donated a freezer . |
| 12 | The widow of publisher Robert Maxwell has given her first in-depth interview since leaving her home in England . |
| 13 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 14 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 15 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 16 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 17 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 18 | It devalued the coinage of the pediment and , by inference , cheapened those masterworks of the past in which the pediment has made its first noble appearance . |
| 19 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 20 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 21 | The scriptwriter of My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid has written his first published novel which , like the two films , is plump with challenging statements about class , race , and sex . |
| 22 | Sheron has collected his first Under-21 cap and his first Young Eagle of the Month Award . |
| 23 | HARRY Mead is entitled to his opinion and I think we might have suffered his first disparaging comment on Bowes Museum and its founders ( Echo June 5 ) without protest . |
| 24 | In 1908 , Beveridge , who by now was an acknowledged expert on unemployment and its remedies , joined the Board of Trade as an unestablished civil servant and prepared his first brief for the president , Winston Churchill . |
| 25 | In February 1943 Wingate had made his first long-range penetration into North Burma , cut the railway in seventy places and crossed the Irrawaddy . |
| 26 | Paul Newman had just secured his first major film role , with Pier Angeli in The Silver Chalice ( which was so bad that when it was shown on television in the Sixties , he took out newspaper advertisements apologising to viewers for having to watch it ) . |
| 27 | However , also in 1964 , China announced that it had exploded their first nuclear device , and that caused worldwide concern , particularly to their close neighbours , the U.S.S.R. |
| 28 | On St Valentines Day that year , the oil cartel , OPEC , had just had its first major success in forcing up in oil prices . |
| 29 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 30 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |