Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I produced a first version of that track in a week and they had it on the TV the next night ! |
| 2 | Through the dingy gloom of this motionless train , I catch a first glimpse of my fellow travellers . |
| 3 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 4 | It 's interesting , actually , since I teach a first year class of biologists , where we do have rather more girls than boys , that erm as a class it works very well , possibly better than some of our own chemistry classes where there are fewer girls , and I do n't know whether this is because of the mix or not . |
| 5 | ‘ When I win a first set like that , I panic . ’ |
| 6 | And I won a first prize so I said , . |
| 7 | ‘ I had a first cousin called Lady Ursula Talbot who had an enormous nose . |
| 8 | I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector . |
| 9 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 10 | I wanted to see , feel and experience the country with no influence from any other source , I wanted a first impression . |
| 11 | Such uses provide an interesting point of comparison with auxiliary do which offers a first glimpse of the explanation for the use of the bare infinitive here . |
| 12 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices . |
| 13 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 14 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 15 | A company spokesman said he did n't know whether the firm would break even on its third quarter just ended — results are due in a couple of weeks — but an improvement on its second quarter loss of $7.2m ( which followed a first quarter which ended $18m in the red ) is expected . |
| 16 | She got a first class degree at the end of it all , so I ca n't have done so badly ! |
| 17 | The way she smiled as she exhaled a first lungful of smoke suggested she fully intended her remark to be ambiguous . |
| 18 | Rosalind was educated at St Paul 's Girls ' School and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she received a first class in part i ( 1940 ) of the natural sciences tripos and a second in part ii ( division I ) in 1941 . |
| 19 | Belfast is the only area who run a first year league which was formed several seasons ago and this year 15 teams have entered with the finals before Easter . |
| 20 | As a communist leader who has , in his own way , resisted change said before ordering the tanks to go in , ‘ If you give a first step , it is never the last . ’ |
| 21 | One facile answer I have heard , or read , to the question : How do you tell a first edition ? is : When there is no evidence that it is anything else . |
| 22 | So I mean y'know j it may help you get a first class mark if you 're a good candidate by writing lots , but generally writing lots does n't ensure that you get a good mark . |
| 23 | You have a first course and a second course and could call it all I do n't know what you call it really , I never do know what to call it all . |
| 24 | And then you have a first look , but you do n't have |
| 25 | Herrick tells me you have a first draft two weeks away from completion . |
| 26 | Once you have a first brood then the stage is set for repetitions . |
| 27 | Yet satellite television is revolutionising entertainment as we know it in Britain today — the trouble is sometimes it sounds as if you need a first class degree to join in ! |
| 28 | Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation . |
| 29 | Debbie also travelled to Scarborough for the event , where she gained a First Dan . |
| 30 | And it is not surprising when one considers that normally one detects a first edition simply by looking on the title verso for information . |