Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] their first " in BNC.

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1 Supporters in the west were asked to give their first preference to Harry West and their second to John Taylor ; those in the east , vice versa .
2 Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete .
3 According to a spokesman for the Birmingham Midshires building society , which still provides finance for self-build schemes , people are now encouraged to sell their first homes before they start building a new one .
4 The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term .
5 But as shown in Fig.3 b for the sCD2 and CD4(D1D2) structures superimposed with respect to their second domains , a tilt of some 45° from this rod axis is required to superimpose their first domains .
6 This later took the form of a public advertisement in which UUUC supporters were urged to distribute their first preferences evenly as between five candidates on a geographical basis according to the polling stations at which they voted .
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