Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I revise my decision to abandon my first lesson and ask Jack McKellar if any drivers are particularly to blame — business people , lorry drivers or journalists with three children ? |
| 2 | I started work at 16 , married a wonderful man at 20 and left my job to have my first child at 21 . |
| 3 | When I was about nine years old , my father had his first car . |
| 4 | Charles , 27 , said : ‘ When my father had his first stroke , everything was tried as it was very likely he was going to die . |
| 5 | I was around 20 years old when my mother purchased our first car . |
| 6 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 7 | Last week 's leaders Tynemouth were knocked off their pedestal losing their first game of the season . |
| 8 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 9 | Her son was married , her daughter-in-law expecting their first baby and she did n't know what to say next . |
| 10 | SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score . |
| 11 | Bush too was being realistic when he made his move to stage her first live concerts . |
| 12 | Naas Botha and his team play their first international in England since 1969 — and it could be their last in a long while . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At the beginning of January Frank travelled to England with his father to start his first term at Rowden . |
| 16 | A FORMER schoolteacher who decided to turn his back on his profession to follow his first love of painting is the latest winner of the Menter y Mis ( Venture of the Month ) award . |
| 17 | Instead , he left behind a potent series of myths — the rock ‘ n ’ roll rebel , the sensitive poet , the sexual athlete , the Lizard King — and a body of work that would influence musicians who had n't even been born when their hero was buried and his gravestone gained its first layer of graffiti in Pére Lachaise cemetery . |
| 18 | ‘ Jaz ’ laughed and ‘ accidentally ’ trod on my foot as he made his way to take his first throw . |
| 19 | On 28th September 1992 your Committee held its first meeting since the Museum opened in July . |
| 20 | But only use the name you are entitled to use ( ie say ‘ Mr Smith ’ not ‘ Bert ’ — even if your boss uses his first name ) . |
| 21 | And I think you might remember that my ‘ Jottings ’ have been in the paper since long before your grandmother had her first G.I. in the War . |