Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] first [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 2 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 3 | After I have given my first three preferences to Apple , Banana and Cherry my fourth preference , if I express one , will count only if Apple , Banana and Cherry have been either elected or eliminated . |
| 4 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 5 | SCOTLAND has its first country-wide patients ' association . |
| 6 | Anderlecht , beaten 3–2 by Sampdoria , in the semi-finals of the European Cup last season , have won their first five games in Belgium this season . |
| 7 | And it 's at school that many gifted children — and their parents — encounter their first real obstacles . |
| 8 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 9 | He has won his first five fights inside the distance and is scheduled to fight again in Phoenix before flying home to Belfast . |
| 10 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 11 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 12 | For Darwin then drew his first explicit analogies between adaptation in wild species and the fitness for human ends of domestic races , as both due to selective breeding . |
| 13 | All you have to do is pick up a pen , or phone and send your first ten pounds . |
| 14 | For anyone building their first few projects the best advice is to avoid any mains powered project . |
| 15 | This month sees the TOP Programme completing its first 18 months of operation . |
| 16 | Over forty disabled ex-servicemen were employed within a month , and they produced their first million poppies within two months . |
| 17 | After drawing their first two matches , the team won the next four games to claim third spot in the Stone and District Cricket League — just 11 points adrift of the leaders . |
| 18 | They had both forgotten Anna 's exceptional hearing but suddenly Anna whispered her first agonised words for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 19 | Yet this is not to say that her contemporaries completely misread her first four novels , nor that they misjudged their merits . |
| 20 | In September 1977 the decision was made to undertake the SPOT remote-sensing programme ; the SPOT- I satellite ( launched by Ariane , V- I 6 ) transmitted its first high-resolution pictures in 1986 . |
| 21 | The resurgence since late February of violence in Uzbekistan against the Meskhetian minority [ see p. 37257 ] produced its first reported fatalities on March 3 when at least three people were killed in clashes between Uzbek demonstrators and security forces in Parkent , near the Uzbek capital of Tashkent . |
| 22 | The early years in Tennessee were hard and the family was frequently hungry , but in 1868 Frances , who from her earliest childhood had been a compulsive inventor of romances , sold her first two stories to Godey 's Lady 's Book , raising the money for paper and postage by selling wild grapes . |
| 23 | Apple Computer Inc on Wednesday launches its first full-function servers , and with them hopes to persuade small- and medium-size businesses to buy from it all the computer equipment they need ; the new Workgroup servers can process data up to four times faster than Quadras , and although they will support alien machines , they are designed primarily for networks consisting mainly of Macintoshes ; the Workgroup Server Models 60 and 80 cost from $3,080 to $10,000 , the high-end Model 95 at $7,600 to $13,000 ; the 95 is out by the end of April the other two this summer ; the company also has a new Release 4.0 of its AppleShare file and print sharing software , and a high-end AppleShare Pro ; the company is also launching AppleTalk Connection for MS-DOS and Windows to enable cross communications between Macintosh and MS-DOS boxes in a network . |
| 24 | THAT PETROL EMOTION , recently dropped by Virgin , make their first live appearances next month since finishing their new LP . |
| 25 | The Kinokuni Children 's Village at Hikotani , near Osaka , admitted its first 90 students on Wednesday , just two days after Channel 4 screened the controversial documentary that depicted life at Summerhill as undisciplined and chaotic . |
| 26 | General Accident reduced its first half losses before tax from £105.2m to £21.2m . |
| 27 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 28 | D'Arquebus , Valence , Tundrish and companions soon received their first two sets of implants from devout Chirurgeons in the Apothacarion wing . |
| 29 | Robert Clift , playing in his England position of inside-left , scored his first two goals of the season for East Grinstead , who beat Eastcote 3-0 at Feltham . |
| 30 | When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines . |