Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker did well apart from losing possession for the Saints ' third goal while Wark earned a first half booking for a challenge on Banger . |
| 2 | Although there was some confusion between their maps and descriptions of the peak , Knox-Johnston , Bonington and Greenland expert Jim Lowther made a first attempt on the peak on 11–12 August . |
| 3 | Nigel Cramer got a first telephone report from Bedford in the mid-morning , long before the written record arrived . |
| 4 | Hendry pocketed a first prize of £110,000 , took his unbeaten run in the tournament — since 1989 — to 20 matches and claimed the antique gold trophy for keeps . |
| 5 | Taylor Woodrow reported a first half loss before tax of £16m ( v £25.3m profit ) ; its dividend has been cut from 1.86p to 0.5p . |
| 6 | AT&T reported a first quarter net loss of $5,641m after a $7,020m charge for the accounting change on post-retirement benefits , and a gain of $383 for a tax accounting change , against a profit last time of $883m on turnover up 2.2% at $15,719m . |
| 7 | Over the next eighteen months , James Roose-Evans compiled a first draft based on her autobiographies and her prolific letters . |
| 8 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
| 9 | In Admiral [ later Admiral of the Fleet ] , George Lord Anson , Pitt had a First Lord of the Admiralty after his own heart , a resolute professional who had been a captain at 27 . |
| 10 | Saatchi & Saatchi announced a first half profit before tax of £11.1m , compared with a loss of £32m in the same period last year . |
| 11 | Asda announced a first half profit before tax of £54.8m ( v £68.8m loss ) which was helped by exceptional gains of £8.7m ( v provisions of £78.9m ) . |
| 12 | Pilkington reported a first half profit before tax of £15.1m ( v £50.6m ) . |
| 13 | Team captain Murphy grabbed a first half hat-trick and added a fourth 15 minutes from the end to make it a great day for the Derry boys . |
| 14 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |