Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His new wife Fatmawati gave him his first son , Guntur , whose name means ‘ thunder ’ . |
| 2 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 3 | However , the run earned me my first individual outdoor international selection for a match against Finland at Lappeenranta . |
| 4 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 5 | His old course and his new job gave him his first academic publication : a grammar of the Albanian language . |
| 6 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 7 | On Wednesday morning of the second week Captain Trentham gave them their first lecture on the history of the Royal Fusiliers . |
| 8 | In the big retail market which opens later on the combined scents of ripe peaches and the fresh basil and thyme plants lying in heaps on the ground gave us our first sniff of Provence . |
| 9 | Clinton made it his first post-victory order of business to send messages of reassurance both to the world at large and to the financial and business communities . |
| 10 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 11 | We got ours in 1956 , and the filmed reports of the Hungarian uprising and of its refugees arriving in Britain gave me my first image of dramatic world events . |
| 12 | I think that Lawrence gives us our first clue in the writing of dialogue : that we must listen and , having listened , ask ourselves how we feel about the voice we 've just heard . |
| 13 | Then editor Ian Pye gave me my first assignment : ‘ Do the gig guide . |
| 14 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 15 | He is still the same tee-total football maniac he was when Hal Stewart gave him his first Scottish job as player-manager of Morton . |
| 16 | For many of the students the course gives them their first stage experience and this is something which in itself produces a lot of concentrated work . |
| 17 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |