Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] their first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge glibly announced : ‘ We 're The Wedding Present , from Leeds , ’ and they then crashed into ‘ ( The Moment Before ) Everything 's Spoiled Again ’ , ‘ White ’ , ‘ Pretty Blue High ’ , ‘ Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room ’ and the song that eventually became their first single , ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ . |
| 2 | By April 1988 , on the second anniversary of the Chernobyl eruption , fear had made the previously obedient people of Kiev brave enough to hold their first post-glasnost street demonstration . |
| 3 | Bohunt girls ' football team are just completing their first full season and remain undefeated . |
| 4 | When most people of her age are just setting their first tentative steps on the bottom rung of life 's ladder , Radio One 's most successful — and , it must be said , best-looking — female disc jockey is riding high . |
| 5 | Crusaders are also pondering their first Euro headache — two months before they go into the UEFA Cup draw . |
| 6 | The hospice staff have now completed their first full week in their new home at Harewood House and received more donations of furniture and equipment , including a fridge from Mr and Mrs Haynes who have already donated a freezer . |
| 7 | The High 's record company remixed then re-released their first single Box Set Go to considerable success , even though they were n't exactly bowled over by the idea . |
| 8 | A black-owned film studio is still a distant dream , and the Hollywood studios have yet to experience their first black-directed box-office failure , which will test their willingness to entrust big budgets to black directors . |