Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Cole sends Magic Ring back sprinting after the colt 's failure in the Greenham and his first target will be the Temple Stakes at Sandown . |
| 2 | It was McNeil 's first win over Graf and her first victory on the carpet surface of Madison Square Garden , while her German opponent went into the match having won her last four tournaments , including a victory over McNeil . |
| 3 | , Sir John ( 1582–1637 ) , landed gentleman and barrister , was born at Lowther 4 February and baptized in Lowther church 24 February 1582 , the second ( but first surviving ) son in the family of eight sons and one daughter of Sir Christopher Lowther of Lowther and his first wife Eleanor , daughter of William Musgrave esquire of Hayton , Cumberland . |
| 4 | The bill had arrived just before our fifth wedding anniversary , celebrated with a rare night out at the Working Men 's Club with my in-laws and Pam and her first husband , Gordon . |
| 5 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 6 | From northern Europe the routes into Central Switzerland , both road and rail , come via either Basel or Zurich and their first lakeside destinations are either in the neighbourhood of Luzern or in that of Brunnen . |
| 7 | Usually considered to be a type of Danish ELF , although the story of their origin sets them apart , for they are believed to be the descendants of Adam and his first wife , Lilith . |
| 8 | Our team is Daphne from Spalding , Fred from Lancaster and Walter from East Kilbride and our first card this week is er , goes back into our own experiences because it 's from Gill of West Yorkshire . |
| 9 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 10 | ( Above ) Ivory and gilded copper cup ( hanape ) showing Mary and her first husband Francis ( the future Francis II , 1559–60 ) as dauphin and dauphiness of France , 1558 . |
| 11 | , Johann Samuel ( 1779–1830 ) , naturalist , geologist , and museum curator , was born 26 February 1779 in Danzig ( Gdansk , Poland ) , the only son of Johann Beniamin Müller and his first wife Eleonor Lehman . |
| 12 | Tuesday saw the launch of TV-am 's Good morning Britain and its first shot at wildlife . |
| 13 | It was my first time in California and my first visit to a swank house . |
| 14 | In 1643 he was made a marshal of France and his first command with that rank required him to reorganise the army of Weimar which had been smashed at the battle of Tüttlingen . |
| 15 | Luke Alderton had been only three years old when Bart dumped his mother for Grace and his first memories were of tears and endless shouting . |
| 16 | After the divorce he married her again under his real name at St. Mildred 's , Bread Street , London and their first child , Sophia , was born in July 1792 . |
| 17 | Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain . |
| 18 | Belle followed later with their daughter Muriel and their first son , Samuel , known as Toy ; the younger children were born in Johannesburg . |
| 19 | , George ( 1801–1847 ) , Gold Coast administrator , was born in Keith , Banffshire , 24 February 1801 , the second son and fifth child in the family of four daughters and three sons of the Revd James Maclean and his first wife Elizabeth Tod . |
| 20 | Now I 'm , I 'm from Worksop and my first job was at Newark and my contacts now gone . |
| 21 | Dawn and her first husband , Brian , divorced as a result of the affair . |
| 22 | , Sir Francis ( c. 1534–1608 ) , Cornish landowner and county office-holder , was the elder son of Thomas Godolphin and his first wife Katherine , daughter of Edmund Bonython . |
| 23 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 24 | Rivingtons , Miller 's publishers , placed advertisements in the back of the 1732 Kalendar for current works : the Dictionary of the year before , the Catalogus Plantarum , John Martyn 's translation of Tournefort 's Tabulae Synopticae Officinalium and his First Lecture on a Course of Botany . |
| 25 | In 1765 Wright painted a fine portrait of Burdett and his first wife Hannah which hangs in the Narodnie Galerie , Prague . |