Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] their first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's top of the A&R man 's list when it comes to nursing young guitar bands through their first , tentative studio steps . |
| 2 | There are schools that give parents detailed questionnaires to complete on their first visit . |
| 3 | He is a capable finisher and his experience of the big occasion will come in useful in a Maghery side gunning for their first title . |
| 4 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 5 | Everything is falling into place for United 's winter push towards their first title in 26 years . |
| 6 | SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years . |
| 7 | If only they could teach a thing or two to Gloucestershire — they go into Sunday 's match with Derbyshire looking for their first win over a county side this season . |
| 8 | ENGLAND edged to their first men 's home international title for four years when they snatched a dramatic 7–7 tie with Wales in the final match of the round-robin series at Hoylake yesterday . |
| 9 | The most common mistake that bands make on their first recording session is to be underrehearsed . |
| 10 | Following their UK gigs , the band embark on their first US tour in December . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's a sadist , ’ said Ricky as the waiter arrived with their first course . |
| 12 | On September 14 , 1989 , the 401st Bomb Group arrived for their first annual reunion to be held in England . |
| 13 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |
| 14 | Eight years of isolation , broken only by the ‘ buying-in ’ of the 1986 Cavaliers and 1989 World XV tours , subsequently came to an end in Durban when the New Zealanders kicked off their first official tour on South African soil for 15 years . |
| 15 | Bottom of the table Wrexham travel to Buckley with both teams looking for their first win of the season . |
| 16 | Chicks started on their third day , for instance , made fewer errors to begin with than chicks started on their first day . |
| 17 | BRIAN CLOUGH , the newest freeman of Nottingham , saw Forest 's relegation fears eased with their first win in six games at The Dell last night , thanks to stunning goals from his son , Nigel , and Roy Keane . |
| 18 | The band 's weakest ever single reached number 46 in the Gallup charts , an achievement supported by their first proper video in which they frolicked among hundreds of balloons . |
| 19 | No other organisation needed to meet such a rapidly expanding demand for a single product that they had , in effect , to build one new factory every two months , as the BEA did during their first ten years . |
| 20 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 21 | A few years ago , Michael was asked by the BBC to take part in a series which featured famous people returning to their first jobs . |
| 22 | Rectal mucosal biopsy samples were taken from 25 patients presenting with their first episode of ulcerative colitis ( new colitis ) , 20 patients with active relapse of ulcerative colitis , and 44 patients with quiescent ulcerative colitis . |
| 23 | A similar failure rate for sclerotherapy of 6% was reported by Jenkins and Shields in patients presenting with their first episode of variceal haemmorhage . |
| 24 | These latter results exclude data from 34 patients with index ulcers less than 5 mm in diameter who had cumulative two , four , and eight week healing rates of 41.2% , 73.5% , and 97.1% respectively and 54 patients suffering from their first ulcer for whom the equivalent healing rates were 50% , 74.1% , and 94.4% . |
| 25 | They are experiments , for instance , that our undergraduates do in their first year here , tailored down very , very severely to act as demonstration experiments for these children . |
| 26 | To measure the accuracy of the prediction rule , our model was applied to another series of 28 cirrhotic patients admitted with their first variceal bleeding during the next period ( January 1989 to May 1990 ) . |
| 27 | All patients admitted with their first variceal haemorrhage were resuscitated and treated by urgent endoscopic sclerotherapy . |
| 28 | In a surprise result , Burundians voted in their first democratic election since 1962 to boot out their military president , Pierre Buyoya , in favour of a banker , Melchior Ndadaye . |
| 29 | As a buoyed-up Blues strode towards their first championship in four years Martin Bayly , another southerner , joined the ranks . |
| 30 | In the three Education Acts passed during their first nine years of power , the Conservative government has made parental influence and involvement a central issue . |