Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUSSIAN airline Aeroflot is starting its first scheduled passenger flights from Stansted , it was announced yesterday . |
| 2 | The Watt Committee is holding its first European conference in Strasbourg on 1–3 April 1992 . |
| 3 | Russell 's loss was Marcus Gorman 's gain , as the 28-year-old stockbroker was riding his first ever winner . |
| 4 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 5 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 6 | PARKLANDS Strikers football team are playing their first full season in the Ellesmere Port Junior League in new tracksuits . |
| 7 | It happened as the world-famous Falcons skydiving team were making their first display jump of the season , watched by more than two hundred schoolchildren . |
| 8 | Human culture , which at this period was making its first faltering steps towards thorough-going agriculturalism and the full-scale Neolithic Revolution which it was to bring in its train , seems to have found the loss of the ur-mother of the primal hunting and gathering society hard to get over . |
| 9 | The Czech arm of the Business Software Alliance is prosecuting its first case under the country 's software piracy laws . |
| 10 | This year he has a perfect excuse — his wife is expecting their first baby during the time the Three Wise Ladies are picking up from police , local authorities , and others information about weather , congestion , and danger points , and relaying it to the media . |
| 11 | ‘ My wife is expecting our first baby in January , ’ he replied shyly . |
| 12 | The recently-opened London office of the New York gallery Daedalus Ancient Art is having its first show in the premises of Rupert Wace Ancient Art , at 107 Jermyn Street , St James 's . |
| 13 | The children of the parish are celebrating their First Holy Communion this week . |
| 14 | Unijet is launching its first branded product targeting latebooking holidaymakers , under the Sun Busters banner . |
| 15 | The International Telecommunication Union is holding its first World Telecommunications Standardisation Conference in Helsinki March 1 to 12 : the conference succeeds what was formerly called the CCITT Plenary Assembly , and follows the ITU 's restructuring announced last year . |
| 16 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 17 | Even if the interviewer is using your first name she/he will not expect you to return the compliment unless you are specifically asked to do so . |
| 18 | A new brewery is producing its first beer this week . |
| 19 | In fact one of the traditional initiations into manhood is buying your first packet of condoms . |
| 20 | The couple are enjoying their first holiday together travelling around California in a caravan , according to German newspaper Bild . |
| 21 | A group which has been juggling with fire for the past year is staging its first play . |
| 22 | A WELSH record company is celebrating its first big success thanks to a local band . |
| 23 | Another early memory was getting my first train set . |
| 24 | He was written about enthusiastically in the New York Times , offered a recording contract by CBS Records , and by the end of that year was cutting his first album . |