Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] ['s] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was for my daughter 's first child , but the child died after six months . |
| 2 | Mr Thomas penywaun was one of my father 's first customers at the shop and he became a firm friend . |
| 3 | As it so happened the decision of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and in public ) , were to be regarded as legitimate . |
| 4 | Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton , nephew of her mother 's first husband who 'd been killed at Tobruk . |
| 5 | At this time , there was no mention of his mother 's first husband . |
| 6 | One of his group 's first lodgings was in a boarding house in Southend on Sea : |
| 7 | Alicia Lockwood was nothing to him , merely a connection with his wife 's first husband . |
| 8 | Two children from her husband 's first marriage were also staying , ‘ and if I could have pictures , ’ she says , ‘ I would have drawn the house with big bulges all over it . ’ |
| 9 | Caen 's Dutch dead ball specialist , Willy Gorter , had promised to score from his team 's first free-kick on his first appearance of the season against Lyon recently . |
| 10 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 11 | At Deirdre 's elbow stood the faithless Jonathan Headleand , who was trying to explain to his stepmother 's first husband Edgar why he 'd decided , after all his protests , to follow in his father 's footsteps , while simultaneously trying to keep one eye on Deirdre ( for whom he felt responsible ) and the other on his girlfriend Kate Williams who was being harangued by a Tory backbencher about Marxist infiltration of the Open University . |
| 12 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 13 | Celia had two half-brothers by her father 's first marriage , namely Nathaniel ( c .1637– c .1672 ) and William ( 1639–98 , the third Viscount ) , and four sisters by the second marriage ( three of whom died in infancy ) . |
| 14 | After the game Swindon boss Glenn Hoddle said he was disappointed by his team 's first half performance . |
| 15 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |