Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] first major [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the reception I made my first major mistake . |
| 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 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 6 | Soon after the first Immigration Act , the DES produced its first major intervention , revealingly entitled English for Immigrants ( 1963 ) . |
| 7 | This new competition arose out of a battle between banks and building societies which arose when the banks made their first major inroad into the mortgage market . |
| 8 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 9 | On May 2 the FMLN mounted their first major offensive since November 1989 [ see p. 37037-38 ] , attacking military posts and dynamiting electricity pylons throughout the country and penetrating into the exclusive suburb of Escalón in the capital , San Salvador . |
| 10 | Steel purchase : British Steel has made its first major acquisition since privatisation , buying private group C Walker & Sons , of Blackburn , for £330m . |
| 11 | It was only in the 1850s , while Prussia was ‘ filling in ’ the gaps of its network by connecting up places like Danzig , that Warsaw received its first major rail connections . |
| 12 | Allen Ginsberg was writing his first major work Howl that summer in the Village . |
| 13 | In 1985 came his first major screen role as the Russian sailor Sergei in the 1985 British film , A Letter To Brezhnev . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Three years later he received his first major commission , to decorate Bodley 's new church of St John , Tue Brook , Liverpool . |
| 16 | Had it gone over the bar Wexford would now still be celebrating their first major title in 20 years . |
| 17 | On St Valentines Day that year , the oil cartel , OPEC , had just had its first major success in forcing up in oil prices . |
| 18 | Helmsley artists Fiona Scott , sister of TV presenter Selina , presents her first major exhibition at the Stable Gallery , Wandsworth Common in London tomorrow . |
| 19 | Having scored his first major triumph in the Southern League Championship , Chapman began to question the merits of the framework of that triumph , that is , the Southern League itself . |
| 20 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 21 | On Jan. 17 at the French Institute on International Relations in Paris Kohl made his first major speech abroad since presenting his 10-point plan for a German confederation on Nov. 28 [ see pp. 37025-26 ] . |
| 22 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson condemned the new rule that will get its first major exposure in this country . |
| 23 | New station Classic FM won its first major award as Radio Programme of the Year for ‘ an outstanding contribution in all areas of its programming ’ . |
| 24 | The new station Classic FM won its first major award as radio programme of the year . |
| 25 | Abbey National wrote its first major piece of leasing business in December 1990 and has since become the fastest-growing company in the field . |
| 26 | AT&T also at last hit its post divestiture stride in the US domestic market ; and in 1989 AT&T had its first major success in Europe — being chosen to be the main foreign partner ( with Italtel ) in modernizing the Italian telephone system . |
| 27 | The great increase in air traffic made accidents almost inevitable and it was not long until Ayrshire had its first major air crash . |
| 28 | The Sussex county player from Ham Manor achieved his first major victory by dint of a brilliant afternoon round of 66 for a total of 137 , one better than Stephen Pullan ( Sand Moor ) , who carded a brace of 69s . |
| 29 | Through the Thirties he centralized his activities on London and , in 1935 , had his first major success with the spectacular revue Go With The Girls . |
| 30 | But his disastrous 76 on Saturday cost him dearly as Zimbabwe 's Nick Price kept his head to take his first major title with a battling 70 for 278 and a three-stroke victory ahead of Faldo , John Cook , Gene Sauers and Jim Gallagher Jnr . |