Example sentences of "[vb infin] their first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start Reading will make their first experience of reading English colourful and enjoyable . |
| 2 | ‘ I stopped my eight- and ten-year-olds from watching Grange Hill , ’ she says , ‘ because it covered abortion and , however well it was done , I did not want their first experience of it to be through television . ’ |
| 3 | TOTTENHAM keep faith with England youth international goalkeeper Ian Walker when they travel to Notts County tonight in search of the first of two wins which Peter Shreeves , their manager , believes will confirm their First Division status . |
| 4 | DEACON Blue will begin their first tour for over a year at the newly revamped Ingliston auditorium on the outskirts of Edinburgh . |
| 5 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 7 | Visitors will have their first opportunity to experience the new system when the castle opens on 3 April . |
| 8 | The defeat of Redgrave and Pinsent is unlikely to prevent their selection for the Olympic coxless pairs and it could prove to have been a useful warning to the world champions to raise their performance for Cologne in two weeks ' time , when all the potential Olympic crews will have their first try-out . |
| 9 | WHEN HANDPUMPS are installed this year in villages in Malawi , Pakistan and the Philippines , thousands of people will have their first chance of leading a healthy life . |
| 10 | New Yorkers will have their first chance to see the work of Ian Davenport at Kasmin ( 5–30 May ) . |
| 11 | Premier John Major hinted they would have their first meeting ‘ in the next few days ’ . |
| 12 | A new car-park is being built further away from the house , so that visitors will no longer have their first impressions spoiled by large numbers of vehicles . |
| 13 | Householders will have their first indication of how much they will have to pay by late April . |
| 14 | Milk yields are not high but the milk is quite rich , though cows do not usually produce their first calf until they are perhaps 42 months old . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody would take their first album . |
| 16 | They wash them , help them perform the intimate functions of relieving bladder and bowels , change dressings on wounds , give medicine , help them take their first steps after an operation , make beds , waken them up , tell them to go to sleep , close their eyes when they die . |
| 17 | Bush and Gorbachev did not hold their first summit until December 1989 in Malta . |
| 18 | Who can ever forget their first impression of an illuminated tram gliding over the rails in a halo of coloured light ? |
| 19 | Clios fitted with petrol engines do not require their first service until 6,000 miles . |
| 20 | Pray for all those training for the mission field at the Glasgow Bible College or the Scottish Baptist College , that they would be anointed for their task and that they would not lose their first love of Jesus Himself as they study scriptures . |
| 21 | But it looked at one stage as if they might lose their first choice and have to stay in Reigate for another summer when negotiations for the purchase coincided with their long-planned holiday of a lifetime — watching last month 's world cup cricket in Australia . |
| 22 | Viewers in the south will get their first chance to judge Carlton , which replaces Thames , when presenter Chris Tarrant goes live in Trafalgar Square at the witching hour tonight to introduce a 90-minute New Year party with Hollywood stars , the Chippendales , a hypnotist , a female impersonator and Paul McCartney — who will probably be watching it in bed since his part was recorded days ago . |
| 23 | The public will get their first chance to look around the twelve acre gardens . |
| 24 | Enthusiasts will get their first chance to watch the late evening floodlit feed of the Bewick swans and other wildfowl at weekends this December . |
| 25 | But season ticket holders will not get their first discounts until January 1993 . |
| 26 | Sparc builders will only get their first glimpse of the stuff when Sun finally rolls out its Sparcstation 3 Viking boxes . |
| 27 | THE 22 Premier League clubs will today receive their first payment from the £304million TV deal with BSkyB . |
| 28 | This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow . |
| 29 | Local schools , who have been involved in a railway poster competition to design images reflecting 150 years of local rail travel , will receive their first class family rail travel prizes from InterCity and the WSR at the same time at Taunton . |
| 30 | Lying in rows on the floor , we breathed deeply without pause , the idea being that we can cleanse our bodies of negative thoughts and that some , by actually reliving the experience of their birth , can release their first hang-ups . |