Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or their first live-in girlfriend taught them quickly . |
| 2 | That was like the day I had them out was the day that my first N H S appointment would have been and it it 's like , you know |
| 3 | In one of my lectures to the Staff Colleges , The Bombing Years — A View from the Cockpit , I can say as pertinently as I can that my first bombing tour was a complete and utter waste of time . |
| 4 | Rather sooner than expected , Digital Equipment Corp duly announced yesterday that its first second source for the Alpha AXP RISC microprocessor would be Mitsubishi Electric Corp , which will manufacture and sell DEC-designed versions of the Alpha AXP chips along with its own designs based on the Alpha AXP architecture from next year . |
| 5 | Some realized that their first year savings were intrinsically ‘ once only ’ : ‘ We ca n't go generic every year , ’ said one lead clinician . |
| 6 | In years to come , the children will be faced with the reality that their first photo session showed them crinkle-faced , bawling , yawning or just bored . |
| 7 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 8 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 9 | The republican communist party left the CPSU , and its first secretary Anatoly Malofeyev resigned from the CPSU politburo on Aug. 25 ; its property was nationalized . |
| 10 | It may be a C k ( or C k- ) quasiregular singularity if all components of the Riemann tensor and its first k derivatives evaluated in an orthonormal frame parallel propagated along an incomplete geodesic ending at q are C ( or C 0- ) . |
| 11 | In this case it may either be categorized as a C k ( or C k- ) non-scalar curvature singularity if all scalars in the metric tensor , the alternating symbol , the Riemann tensor and its first k derivatives are bounded , that is , tend to a C ( or C - ) function . |
| 12 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 13 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 14 | ( Above ) Ivory and gilded copper cup ( hanape ) showing Mary and her first husband Francis ( the future Francis II , 1559–60 ) as dauphin and dauphiness of France , 1558 . |
| 15 | Diabetic subjects and their first degree relatives form a suitable population in which to examine the relation between birth weight and the development of impaired glucose tolerance and non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 16 | From northern Europe the routes into Central Switzerland , both road and rail , come via either Basel or Zurich and their first lakeside destinations are either in the neighbourhood of Luzern or in that of Brunnen . |
| 17 | But UUUC voters were not so persuaded and their first preference votes varied from 2,609 for McNarry ( Un ) to 11,958 for Craig ( VUPP ) . |
| 18 | Betrayed if published as a £5.99 , B format paperback ; Bloomsbury says that most if its first print run of 15,000 copies has been subscribed . |
| 19 | , Samuel ( 1765–1841 ) , dean of Christ Church , Oxford , was born in Westminster 20 September 1765 , the eldest in the family of two daughters and five sons ( one of whom died young ) of Samuel Smith , headmaster of Westminster School from 1764 to 1788 , and his first wife Anna Jackson . |
| 20 | , Charles Petrie ( 1817–1902 ) , first archbishop of Glasgow in the restored Catholic hierarchy of Scotland , was born in York 7 November 1817 , the fifth of nine children and third of five sons of John Lewis Eyre , later founder of the South Western Railway Company , and his first wife Sarah Parker ( died 1825 ) . |
| 21 | He lost his only son Jay , 26 , in an air crash and his first wife Connie drowned in Antigua . |
| 22 | , John ( 1585–1654 ) , dean of Winchester , was born in Seaton , Angus , 25 June 1585 , the sixth of eight sons and the eighth of twelve children of Sir Peter Young [ q.v. ] , tutor to James VI of Scotland , and his first wife Elizabeth Gibb . |
| 23 | , George ( 1801–1847 ) , Gold Coast administrator , was born in Keith , Banffshire , 24 February 1801 , the second son and fifth child in the family of four daughters and three sons of the Revd James Maclean and his first wife Elizabeth Tod . |
| 24 | , Johann Samuel ( 1779–1830 ) , naturalist , geologist , and museum curator , was born 26 February 1779 in Danzig ( Gdansk , Poland ) , the only son of Johann Beniamin Müller and his first wife Eleonor Lehman . |
| 25 | , Sir Francis ( c. 1534–1608 ) , Cornish landowner and county office-holder , was the elder son of Thomas Godolphin and his first wife Katherine , daughter of Edmund Bonython . |
| 26 | , Sir John ( 1582–1637 ) , landed gentleman and barrister , was born at Lowther 4 February and baptized in Lowther church 24 February 1582 , the second ( but first surviving ) son in the family of eight sons and one daughter of Sir Christopher Lowther of Lowther and his first wife Eleanor , daughter of William Musgrave esquire of Hayton , Cumberland . |
| 27 | , George ( 1797–1864 ) , architect , was born in Cartmel , Lancashire , 3 May 1797 , the second of the three sons and third of the seven children of Francis Webster , mason , builder , and architect of Kendal , Westmorland , and his first wife Janet , daughter of George Slater , yeoman of Kirkby Lonsdale in the same county . |
| 28 | , Edward ( 1649/51–1710 ) , politician and friend of John Locke [ q.v. ] , was born in either 1649 or , more probably , 1651 , the only son of Edward Clarke , gentleman , of Chipley , near Taunton , Somerset , and his first wife Ann , daughter of Mark Knight of Buckinghamshire . |
| 29 | , Sir William ( 1520–1600 ) , politician and administrator , was born 30 January 1520 , the fifth but only surviving son of ( Sir ) Christopher More , Exchequer official , who had purchased Loseley , near Guildford , Surrey , by 1509 , and his first wife Margaret , daughter of Walter Mugge of Guildford ; five of his nine sisters lived to marry . |
| 30 | In 1765 Wright painted a fine portrait of Burdett and his first wife Hannah which hangs in the Narodnie Galerie , Prague . |