Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | INFANT — A child who has not reached his/her first birthday ; i.e. 0–11 completed month or 0 year old . |
| 2 | REGGAE star Shabba Ranks has finally scored his first solo hit after releasing a staggering 30 singles on 15 different labels since 1988 . |
| 3 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 4 | Julie , 23 , pictured , who lives in Mossley Hill but is originally from Sunderland , has just completed her first year at Alsop Wilkinson after law studies at Birmingham Polytechnic and Chester Law School . |
| 5 | Martyn , 20 , has just completed his first full season of Sheffield Shield cricket for Western Australia . |
| 6 | Richards , who has just completed his first year as the Welsh Rugby Union development officer for Mid-Wales , wants to see the representative side going from strength to strength . |
| 7 | She has just written her first screenplay , an adaptation of Jane Austen 's Sense And Sensibility . |
| 8 | Animal lovers and greenies everywhere will be pleased to know that the Animal Defenders Shop catalogue has just made its first appearance . |
| 9 | She has just sold her first novel to Doubleday , and she is at work on another . |
| 10 | The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee was set up in July 1991 to fulfil this role and has just produced its first report ( p ? ? ? ) . |
| 11 | After 240 years , the Jockey Club has just got its first chief executive . |
| 12 | He expects a similar situation with Alpha , but says the company has just signed its first large contract in the US . |
| 13 | Sainsbury , which has concentrated on the south , has just opened its first store in the north-east and is moving into Wales and Scotland . |
| 14 | It has already had its first prime-time telly airing ( Brookside — Tracy Corkhill and her form master ) and like incest , pre-Cleveland , it is being talked of as a hidden social scandal . |
| 15 | And Oliver 's brother Jordan , three , has already had his first spin in a go-kart . |
| 16 | Indeed , Summerchild has already had his first meeting with Serafin , and been accepted as Secretary of the operation . |
| 17 | Mountain View , California-based Eo Inc looks like beating Apple Computer Inc to market with a personal communicator : the company has formally launched its first two products , the Eo Personal Communicator 440 and 880 , handheld devices with facsimile , electronic mail , cellular phone and personal computing capabilities . |
| 18 | The club , which already boats more than 200 members , has also elected its first committee with businessman Peter Saywell taking the chair . |
| 19 | JS has also launched its first sweet dessert sandwich — Banana Date and Raisin Sandwich made from a honey and sunflower seed bun loaf — which is in 125 branches and retails at £1.29 . |
| 20 | The firm has also signed its first European distributor for Esix , UK firm Custom Business Systems Ltd , London , and will cut other deals in France , Germany , Scandinavia , Italy and Greece . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard has also signed its first licensee for its OpenODB object-oriented database management system : Informix Software Inc is to integrate OpenODB it with its Informix OnLine relational database , making OpenODB available on several of the hardware environments on which Informix runs . |
| 22 | SunSolutions has also opened its first office outside the US — Andrew Rattigan is to head a North European operation based at Sun 's UK headquarters in Bagshot , Surrey . |
| 23 | SunSolutions has also opened its first office outside the US — Andrew Rattigan is to head a North European operation based at Sun 's UK headquarters in Bagshot , Surrey . |
| 24 | Getting more confident by the day , Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc has now made its first acquisition , buying Gestetner Lasers Pty Ltd , which manufactures and distributes laser printers . |
| 25 | FIVE years ago LASMO Pakistan was formed , so with great pride the office has now celebrated its first long service awards . |
| 26 | Roger Sippl 's latest venture , ProActive Software Inc , Mountain View , California ( UX No 394 ) , has now launched its first product — what it calls a new generation of enterprise-wide Customer Information Resource management systems . |
| 27 | Now it appears to be on the ‘ at risk ’ register , its reputation battered and bruised , part of it under review before it has even reached its first birthday . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's vast personal computer contract with the former Soviet Ministry of Education ended early with just 15,000 machines installed in schools and only 75% of those paid for , IBM Europe chief Renato Riverso told the Wall Street Journal ; he also said that IBM has yet to receive its first payment on its $150m contract to provide Aeroflot with a modern reservations system . |
| 29 | Le Tissier , who is Southampton 's top scorer this season with three goals , has yet to win his first full cap . |
| 30 | Helmut Bradl has yet to win his first GP but he surely does n't have long to wait . |