Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 2 | September 1991 saw their first entry into a small local dog show and they parked next to a couple with two Dobermans who knew what dog showing was all about . |
| 3 | Captain R.R. ( Bill ) Baldwin 's platoon had a patrol out under Corporal Palmer when the Japanese launched their first attack ( see map p. 77 ) and the platoons withdrew through enemy patrolled country , laying ambushes in the scrub . |
| 4 | All three passed their first accounting examinations . |
| 5 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 6 | Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox . |
| 7 | The three Portuguese pharmaceutical wholesalers acquired in the first half of 1992 made their first contribution , but disposing of the nappy-making business cost UniChem £2.4 million below the line . |
| 8 | John Major on March 5 paid his first visit to Moscow as United Kingdom Prime Minister . |
| 9 | 1992 saw her first solo show , I Will Always be Here , commissioned by the Ikon Gallery , Birmingham . |
| 10 | Foreign & Colonial launched its first scheme last month in response to public demand , while Alastair Herbert , of Invesco , says business in the last two years amounted to more than £40 million . |
| 11 | For a significant minority in our simple , illegally young : 1 man in 5 had his first experience of sexual intercourse before the age of consent ( 16 ) . |
| 12 | Earlier , as the Chamber of Representatives on Oct. 17 held its first session for the parliamentary year 1991-92 , it was announced that a new opposition grouping , the National Movement ( MN ) , had been formed under the leadership of the veteran Berber politician Mahjoubi Aherdane , who in 1957 had founded his Popular Movement party ( MP ) . |
| 13 | England 's Under-15s gained their first win of the season , 3–0 , against Northern Ireland before a crowd of 3,944 at the Goldstone Ground , Brighton . |
| 14 | When the Chinese made their first attempt , in preparation for the invasion of Indo-China , to bring the various Vietnamese factions together and create a Vietnamese Revolutionary League ( abbreviated to Dong Minh Hoi ) members of the ICP were specifically excluded . |
| 15 | Hitachi Data Systems Ltd took its first step into the Unix world last week and launched the OSF/1 operating system for its GX and EX series IBMulators . |
| 16 | Hitachi Data Systems Ltd took its first step into the Unix world yesterday and launched the OSF/1 operating system for its GX and EX series IBMulators . |
| 17 | The year 1928 saw her first visit to western Asia . |
| 18 | Brides with husbands in social class I had their first baby on average thirty-two months after marriage in 1971 , but waited a full year later ( to forty-four months ) in 1979 , a delay of 38 per cent ( table 4.11 ) . |
| 19 | As Victor Saunders points out in his chapter on the Caucasus in The Mountains of Europe ( Oxford Illustrated Press ) , of the ten highest summits , nine received their first ascent from members of the Alpine Club — admittedly including honorary member Vittorio Sella who was Italian , not British . |
| 20 | A carpenter 's daughter , Unity Hall was born at Wembley , Middlesex , on Sept 21 1928 and at 16 had her first story published in Woman 's World . |
| 21 | In March 1942 , Swann Galleries Inc. conducted their first book auction in New York . |
| 22 | In 1946 , however , Lean directed his first film without a Coward connection , Great Expectations , and the huge reputation and success this enjoyed coincided with the start of the long postwar decline suffered by Coward — the net result was that the writer 's contribution to the earlier films ' success became progressively marginalized , a state of affairs hardly helped by the increasing influence of French auteurist models of film analysis on British critics . |
| 23 | A cold wind blew and the rain fell in torrents as the Spanish launched their first IACC boat . |
| 24 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 25 | It was in station catering , so long the Cinderella , that the changed order of the 1980s made its first mark . |
| 26 | TOUCHE ROSS , the pace setters , and defending champions Kelburne were given a timely reminder last week that this season 's Torrie Stockbrokers ' National Men 's League has a long way to go , as they both sustained their first defeats of the season . |
| 27 | Both enjoyed their first solo chart success in the month of February , with records whose title began with a ‘ g ’ . |
| 28 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , on March 20 presented his first budget — for the financial year 1990-91 ( to the beginning of April 1991 ) — which he described as " a saver 's budget " . |
| 29 | Henry II of Germany incurred ecclesiastical disapproval by entering into an alliance with heathen Slavs against Christian Poles , while his French contemporary Robert the Pious repudiated his first wife and took a second who was within the forbidden degrees of kinship . |
| 30 | The Commission in 1990 completed its first investigation into human rights in Iran since the revolution of 1979 . |