Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourth division Hereford scored their first league win of the year . |
| 2 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 3 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 4 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 5 | Japanese and Russian officials in charge of diplomatic and defence policies held their first bilateral policy planning meeting on June 14-15 at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow . |
| 6 | However , even a solitary point looked a far-fetched dream for the Scottish champions until 22-year-old substitute Gary McSwegan grabbed his first goal for the club in the 79th minute . |
| 7 | In the afternoon , William Halliday achieved his first Horse of the Year Show victory some 12 months after leaving his long-term employment as Harvey Smith 's stable jockey . |
| 8 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 9 | David Howells scored his first goal of the season to give Spurs a 67th minute lead and Teddy Sheringham made it 2-0 from the penalty spot eight minutes from time . |
| 10 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |
| 11 | Born in Washington on 10 October , 1900 , Miss Hayes had her first professional role at the age of six as Prince Charles in The Royal Family . |
| 12 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 13 | Miss Bothway recorded her first win between the flags for two years at High Easter on Saturday . |
| 14 | Norwich proceeded to stage a spirited rally and Seaman 's goal came under intense pressure before Norwich defender Butterworth scored his first goal of the season when he forced the ball home after Beckford 's shot had been blocked . |
| 15 | President Hafez al-Assad paid his first visit to Iran on Sept. 22-25 during which he held talks with the Iranian President , Hojatolislam Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , and Iran 's spirititual leader , Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei . |
| 16 | TEA ROPATI grabbed his first drop goal in three seasons to sneak St Helens into this morning 's second-round draw of the Regal Trophy . |
| 17 | Just before a tyro Pat Pocock played his first Test there , over 21 years ago , Tom Graveney cruelly pointed to the Bridgetown sightscreen and said to the tremulous off-spinner : ‘ Oh , look lad , it 's still peppered with those little red dots from that time Clyde Walcott got after Jim Laker ten years ago . |
| 18 | It 's thirty years since Frankie Valli had his first hit with the Four Seasons , with a song that was to become his trademark . |
| 19 | Richard Booth opened his first bookshop there in 1961 . |
| 20 | That was the year second-hand bookseller , Richard Booth opened his first shop in Hay . |
| 21 | And you want to know what it was like being fêted by the Stones and Led Zep , and how in ‘ 61 Bob Dylan got his first Greenwich Village pro gig with John Lee ( and was apparently pissed off because the man from the New York Times was far more interested in rapping with the bluesman ) , but he just says it was nice to be able to put young Bob on the bandstand . |
| 22 | BOBBY MOORE made his first appearance for England against Peru in 1962 . |
| 23 | STAFFORD RANGERS took their first Football League scalp in 18 years last night by beating Lincoln City . |
| 24 | Eleanor Rathbone published her first studies of poverty in Liverpool . |
| 25 | In May 1917 the League of Nations Society held its first major public meeting , with a galaxy of Establishment speakers . |
| 26 | In the other goal , Andy Tucker made his first save collecting from Colin Head after twelve minutes . |
| 27 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 28 | France , Japan , Canada , India , the USSR and Europe all have active remote sensing programmes , and US dominance of the commercial remote sensing market received its first challenge in 1986 with the launch of the French Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre ( SPOT-1 ) . |
| 29 | NOW IT 'S THE JAMES GANG DAVID JAMES made his first full appearance in goal for Liverpool last night , in place of Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 30 | Carole Ann Ford made her first film appearance at the age of eight , retired to school for a few years , and then emerged again at fifteen , working constantly thereafter until her landing of the part of Susan Foreman in the Summer of 1963 . |