Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple are enjoying their first holiday together travelling around California in a caravan , according to German newspaper Bild . |
| 2 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 3 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 4 | If you 're buying your first home and your mortgage is £40,000* or above you could qualify for the following benefit : — . |
| 5 | Several ‘ big' names among the 44 booked are marking their first appearance at Foxhall in their new formula . |
| 6 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 7 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 8 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 9 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 10 | IT 'S an action-packed day on the Mersey Soccer beat tomorrow and the Football Echo will be bringing you first reports of how our teams fared . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough Bears will be seeking their first Gold Cup points of the season against Berwick Bandits at Cleveland Park tonight . |
| 12 | Australian , Jamie Stewart , will be sampling his first season in England when he arrives at Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | Partridge Fine Arts Plc , one of London 's most prestigious furniture dealers , will be holding their first exhibition on a single theme from 25 November . |
| 14 | The New Oriental Gallery is located at 4 Davies Street and will be holding its first exhibition from 9 December . |
| 15 | Said a source close to Paula , who is reported to be expecting their first baby in December : ‘ They had a whirlwind romance and just wanted to get together straight away . |
| 16 | Steve Cauthen will be having his first race-ride on Arazi , but Pat Valenzuela , who rode Arazi in the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile , is scheduled to be reunited with the colt in the Kentucky Derby next month . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it was due entirely to his efforts that she would n't be spending her first night in Gibraltar in a prison cell . |
| 18 | French Open champion Sergi Bruguera has confirmed that he would not be making his first Wimbledon appearance since 1990 because he is ‘ exhausted . ’ |
| 19 | Ehiogu , who wrote begging letters to clubs after refusing to sign for his first club West Bromwich Albion , will be making his first starting appearance in the Premier League . |
| 20 | Ralph Buckingham , of Shackleton troop , will be making his first attempt in the marathon 125 mile non-stop race . |
| 21 | If you do this , you will be making your first experiment with Hemingway 's ‘ letting the well fill up again' before you return to write . |
| 22 | CI winger Jim Cowden will today be ruing his first minute gaffe when he threw away a try by trying to run under the posts . |
| 23 | Norwich are chasing their first title as well as £770,000 , the highest pay-out to champions . |
| 24 | Distinctive feature phonologists have also claimed that when children are learning their first language , they acquire features rather than individual phonemes . |
| 25 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |
| 26 | The Russians , as opposed to Soviets are making their first appearance at Henley . |
| 27 | Oxford United ladies are playing their first game at the Manor … kick-off is at two … next for us is rugby … this weekend Gloucester go to Wasps |
| 28 | Most of the East Anglian ports were enjoying their first spell of prosperity for many years , employment and trade was booming in the area and more customs staff were required at King 's Lynn , Ipswich and Felixstowe , my old home and a natural first choice . |
| 29 | Soon , tens of thousands of young city-dwellers , on bicycle or on foot , were enjoying their first taste of the countryside with the aid of the new network of youth hostels . |
| 30 | Some were getting their first experience of Wombat , the anti-tank gun which is issued along with Milan missiles to anti-tank platoons in Berlin battalions : the battalion moves to Berlin in 1990 for two-and-a-half years . |