Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] their first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember their first UK showcase . |
| 2 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 3 | In pursuit of these aims the president and his staff proposed bold innovations in economic policy , the introduction of which became their first priority . |
| 4 | However , the group which had their first babies between 1950 and 1954 had a median of 9.7 years before they returned to paid employment . |
| 5 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 6 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 7 | How many people do you know who failed their first driving test ? |
| 8 | The local derby is jointly sponsored by Gateshead-based Colman Industrial Plastics and Hunter Building Supplies who make their first venture into speedway sponsorship . |
| 9 | The highest frequency was recorded for women who bore their first child ( nulliparous ) at ages 35–39 ( 14 per cent ) . |
| 10 | In midweek , Northern Rail ( Mick O'Brien , Jimmy Knowles , Tommy Garner ) came back from a 20 deficit to win 3-2 against Hornby Road Sports , who suffered their first setback of the season . |
| 11 | EAT , who issue their first single of '92 , ‘ Golden Egg ’ , through Fiction on May 26 , have announced details of an 18-date spring tour . |
| 12 | It was set with a full English breakfast — well , she had told Michele she was always hungry — and while she poured herself some coffee and began on the bacon and eggs she recalled their first meeting . |
| 13 | ( People in Sri Lanka , for instance , talk of a story about the lion who fathered their first ancestors on the island of Sri Lanka , or Ceylon . ) |
| 14 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 15 | Swindon who won their first point on saturday are at home tomorrow to manchester city … just like old times with Brian Horton back in Central South … so much for football we 've got some new champions to celebrate tonight … |
| 16 | Swindon who won their first point on saturday are at home tomorrow to manchester city … just like old times with Brian Horton back in Central South … so much for football we 've got some new champions to celebrate tonight … |
| 17 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 18 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
| 19 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
| 20 | For example , Phoenix , in her study of women who had their first child between the age of 16 and 19 , argued that contrasting the lives of Black and white women did little to illuminate their experiences of becoming a mother ( Phoenix , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | FOR US , was a good day out , but planning for the Summer Fayre started about eight months ago for the Summer Fayre committee who held their first meeting last October ! |
| 22 | Picard 's enthusiasm for the potential of the Belgian capital is shared by Sotheby 's who held their first sale there on 16 and 17 June . |
| 23 | ‘ We want their first performance to be a real knock-out , ’ Jaffray says . |
| 24 | Tell your family and friends about York 's great service , and when we receive their first order , we 'll send you a 24 exposure York film absolutely FREE . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 27 | One Saturday last November , they got their first taste . |
| 28 | And footballers booked a perm as soon as they got their first team place . |
| 29 | The air-conditioning roared softly and they got their first drinks as they came out of the tunnel and on to the New Jersey marshes where gulls circled the refuse dumps among a forest of concrete stilts carrying the highways south . |
| 30 | Once the English champions found their way into the Canberra half , 27 minutes into the game , they made their first attack count . |