Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 2 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 3 | However , even a solitary point looked a far-fetched dream for the Scottish champions until 22-year-old substitute Gary McSwegan grabbed his first goal for the club in the 79th minute . |
| 4 | In the afternoon , William Halliday achieved his first Horse of the Year Show victory some 12 months after leaving his long-term employment as Harvey Smith 's stable jockey . |
| 5 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 6 | David Howells scored his first goal of the season to give Spurs a 67th minute lead and Teddy Sheringham made it 2-0 from the penalty spot eight minutes from time . |
| 7 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |
| 8 | Born in Washington on 10 October , 1900 , Miss Hayes had her first professional role at the age of six as Prince Charles in The Royal Family . |
| 9 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 10 | Miss Bothway recorded her first win between the flags for two years at High Easter on Saturday . |
| 11 | President Hafez al-Assad paid his first visit to Iran on Sept. 22-25 during which he held talks with the Iranian President , Hojatolislam Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , and Iran 's spirititual leader , Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei . |
| 12 | Just before a tyro Pat Pocock played his first Test there , over 21 years ago , Tom Graveney cruelly pointed to the Bridgetown sightscreen and said to the tremulous off-spinner : ‘ Oh , look lad , it 's still peppered with those little red dots from that time Clyde Walcott got after Jim Laker ten years ago . |
| 13 | It 's thirty years since Frankie Valli had his first hit with the Four Seasons , with a song that was to become his trademark . |
| 14 | Richard Booth opened his first bookshop there in 1961 . |
| 15 | That was the year second-hand bookseller , Richard Booth opened his first shop in Hay . |
| 16 | BOBBY MOORE made his first appearance for England against Peru in 1962 . |
| 17 | STAFFORD RANGERS took their first Football League scalp in 18 years last night by beating Lincoln City . |
| 18 | Eleanor Rathbone published her first studies of poverty in Liverpool . |
| 19 | In the other goal , Andy Tucker made his first save collecting from Colin Head after twelve minutes . |
| 20 | NOW IT 'S THE JAMES GANG DAVID JAMES made his first full appearance in goal for Liverpool last night , in place of Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 21 | Carole Ann Ford made her first film appearance at the age of eight , retired to school for a few years , and then emerged again at fifteen , working constantly thereafter until her landing of the part of Susan Foreman in the Summer of 1963 . |
| 22 | Tranmere looked most likely to earn the draw their approach was designed to secure as a bottom line when defender Richard Smith put his first foot wrong of the afternoon in the 82nd minute . |
| 23 | Lucy Todd miscarried her first child … her second Ankeret was still born … |
| 24 | Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin launched his first airship in 1900 , and so began the age of the hydrogen-filled craft in which Germany led the world for two decades . |
| 25 | In March Benin held its first multi-party presidential contest , amid north-south rivalries similar to those in neighbouring Togo . |
| 26 | GARY Lineker scored his first goal today since being sidelined from the Japan League for three months with a broken foot but it was not enough to save Nagoya Grampus Eight from defeat in the opening match of the Nabisco Cup . |
| 27 | Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim presented his first budget on Nov. 1 . |
| 28 | In 1959 Cripps Hall was opened and Dr Lucas became its first Warden . |
| 29 | Dr Jacks decided his first task was to listen to Mandy independently and find out the reason for her visit . |
| 30 | WOORKERI RAMAN hit his first one-day international century to lead India to a four-wicket victory over South Africa with five balls remaining in Pretoria yesterday . |