Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pool of silence which fell between them Laura raised her eyes and took her first good , clear look at the man she had married , and whom she had n't seen for so many years . |
| 2 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |
| 3 | It was spoken in Lowland Scotland for many centuries and generated our first literature , indeed , Europe 's first literature outside Latin and Greek . |
| 4 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 5 | I had a similar experience several years ago , when I left college and started my first job . |
| 6 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 7 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 8 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |
| 9 | In the first multiparty elections since 1968 , Frederick Chiluba , leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , was elected President on Oct. 31 , ending the 27-year rule of Kenneth Kaunda , who led Zambia to independence and became its first President in October 1964 [ see p. 20373 ] . |
| 10 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 11 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 12 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 13 | Cardus finished all but one GP and won his first at Le Mans , France . |
| 14 | The Bank 's founder , Andrew Drummond , was an established goldsmith who followed the lead of other West End goldsmiths into banking and opened his first ledger in September 1717 . |
| 15 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 16 | That very same evening he appeared on the bandstand in Woodford Square and gave his first speech under the auspices of the P.E.M. The speech turned out to be nothing less than a vitriolic attack on the Commission , which he portrayed as an organisation run by ‘ hide- bound conservatives in the British Colonial service ’ . |
| 17 | You 've been to the kite shop and bought your first steerable . |
| 18 | Prost joined the Renault team in 1981 as a replacement for Jean-Pierre Jabouille and had his first success in the rain-interrupted French Grand Prix at Dijon . |
| 19 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 20 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 21 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 22 | George moved to Liverpool and produced his first documented work , a wax portrait relief of Henry Blundell [ q.v. ] of Ince , the connoisseur and sculpture collector . |
| 23 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | ‘ A year after we started off , we purchased some ground and built our first accident repair centre . |
| 25 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 26 | He moved to Lotus the following season and enjoyed his first win at Estoril . |
| 27 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 28 | Without Shirley , he probably would n't have done a ton of marathons and collected his first medal from the Hundred Club . |
| 29 | Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk , who was born in Eureka , California and spent his first six years on a Red Indian reservation , scored centuries in the Varsity matches of 1953 and 1954 , and captained Cambridge in 1955 . |
| 30 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |