Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [unc] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her father is my husband 's first cousin and I only found out who she was when her year was half over , ’ she says . |
| 2 | I need hardly say that my wife 's first impression of Lewis differed somewhat from my own . |
| 3 | I began by reading English and French and , after my mother 's trial , I was allowed to continue my studies by the personal intervention of Rákosi — by his special grace — because my godmother , my father 's first wife , was an extremely popular actress on the national stage , a great star . |
| 4 | This was my father 's first visit to her since the war ; what made it possible was the free travel concession he now had , working for British Railways as a painter and decorator . |
| 5 | Mr Thomas penywaun was one of my father 's first customers at the shop and he became a firm friend . |
| 6 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 7 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 8 | my Lord erm first of all if your Lordship stayed the counterclaim your Lordship would be staying the claim under article eighty five and your Lordship would be denying the direct effect of article eighty five and of course |
| 9 | It was for my daughter 's first child , but the child died after six months . |
| 10 | Real horro , that someone has taken something that you 've bought : because it was my daughter 's first car , it was even worse . |
| 11 | Well he was my my mother 's first cousin you see . |
| 12 | This was her boy 's first day at college . ’ |
| 13 | Two children from her husband 's first marriage were also staying , ‘ and if I could have pictures , ’ she says , ‘ I would have drawn the house with big bulges all over it . ’ |
| 14 | In Eliza 's fourth letter home to her mother ( the third was lost ) in which she again expresses her yearning for the children , she also describes her developing attachment to the Franklins , and her husband 's first significant expedition under their auspices : |
| 15 | Senders of the first postcards out of the hat next Friday telling me her husband 's first name in the series , will take the prizes . |
| 16 | It is true that the writing-up of a thesis may be its author 's first , and most difficult , exercise in scientific communication , and it is written at a time when the author may be scientifically immature , and lacking the communication skills which will develop later . |
| 17 | ‘ Why you ? ’ was her father 's first question , echoing Ellie 's own bewilderment . |
| 18 | Celia had two half-brothers by her father 's first marriage , namely Nathaniel ( c .1637– c .1672 ) and William ( 1639–98 , the third Viscount ) , and four sisters by the second marriage ( three of whom died in infancy ) . |
| 19 | As it so happened the decision of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and in public ) , were to be regarded as legitimate . |
| 20 | Meyer , lifting her country 's first track medal following South Africa 's 32-year exile from the Olympics , said : ‘ My silver will inspire the entire nation . |
| 21 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 22 | Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton , nephew of her mother 's first husband who 'd been killed at Tobruk . |
| 23 | ‘ Have you heard from Sebastian ? ’ was her mother 's first excited question . |
| 24 | His mother , Marjorie Llewellyn told the hearing how her son 's first and only girlfriend , Helen Jones , had ended their relationship earlier that month . |
| 25 | ALEX FERGUSON , the Manchester United manager , is ready to leave Bryan Robson out of Sunday 's Rumbelows Cup final against Nottingham Forest in an attempt to secure his club 's first League championship trophy in 25 years . |
| 26 | This was Blanco 's first appearance at Parc des Princes in the red and white jersey of Biarritz Olympique and his club 's first Championship final since 1939 . |
| 27 | In his first interview as Prime Minister on July 25 , Jasray stressed that his administration 's first priority would be to implement a policy aimed at halting production decline and economic recession . |
| 28 | First they killed the ball , enabling Adrian Davies to kick a short penalty goal , his side 's first score of the half . |
| 29 | Steve Gaughan mustered his side 's first real effort after 35 minutes , a long range shot which Nigel Adkins saved at the foot of his post , but two minutes later they were almost level when a powerful Nick Cusack header from an Andy Toman cross was going into the bottom corner until Adkins somehow pushed the ball away . |
| 30 | One of his group 's first lodgings was in a boarding house in Southend on Sea : |