Example sentences of "[verb] out [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAKE up with Macaulay Culkin and you could be checking out his first screen kiss . |
| 2 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 3 | Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred . |
| 4 | Electronic News hears that Stratus Computer Inc is readying new Intel Corp i860-based fault tolerant systems for introduction later in the year : Stratus currently offers two uniprocessor machines , and will likely bring out its first multi-processor , based on the faster i860XP part . |
| 5 | In spite of its success — the book quickly sold out its first edition of 60,000 — Laura dreaded the thought of another book which failed to represent the company as she saw it . |
| 6 | Magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons . |
| 7 | A ROMAN Catholic priest vowed yesterday to continue his fight to bring a private prosecution for murder against the doctor involved in the Tony Bland case , even though magistrates threw out his first attempt by refusing to issue a summons . |
| 8 | This will mean that if your claim is successful we will be able to send out your first bill showing the reduced amount . |
| 9 | He took out his first patent at the age of twenty-four , after inventing a portable alarm to attach to watches and clocks . |
| 10 | Like when my mother was a kid in the 1930's they did n't used to use anaesthesia for taking out your first set of teeth if they were to take them out , up in the round Newcastle . |
| 11 | Following the meeting a US military excavation team carried out its first MIA search in Cambodia ; it announced on March 23 that it had recently unearthed some remains which were believed to be of members of US television crews killed in Cambodia in 1970 . |
| 12 | On April 25 UNTAC officials carried out their first inspection of Khmer Rouge territory — two sites north and south of Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok 's headquarters at Anlong Veng in the north of the country . |
| 13 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 14 | When Seebohm Rowntree carried out his first study of poverty in York in 1899 , he found that around I per cent of the poor were old people , largely because most working-class people worked until they died , or were incarcerated in the workhouse . |
| 15 | But most importantly , once the strike had lasted out its first week , a large number of businessmen and middle-class professionals tacitly co-operated with the strikers in return for being able to pursue some of their normal business . |