Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] their first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Dadaists , a nonsense name chosen at random , evolved the idea of a miniature variety show and held their first show in a little bar , the Cabaret Voltaire . |
| 5 | St Agnes introduced the Poor Clares into the Convent of St Saviour and became their first abbess in 1235 . |
| 6 | The staff of Pravda , the leading Soviet newspaper , declared themselves independent of the Communist Party and published their first non-partisan issue on 31 August . |