Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago , Michael was asked by the BBC to take part in a series which featured famous people returning to their first jobs . |
| 2 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Roy , 56 , who has played Alec in over 500 episodes , said earlier this year he was returning to his first love , the theatre . |
| 4 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 5 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 6 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 7 | She was nervous and excited all at once just as if she was a young girl going to her first ball . ’ |
| 8 | Phil Gelderd praised the list in glowing terms before going to his first Leeds game for years — sadly for him he picked the recent one against Norwich . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember going to my first meeting , ’ he recalls . |
| 10 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 11 | to rugby next and a banana skin called Bath Rugby Club sent Gloucester tumbling to their first league defeat of the season on Saturday … the score twenty nine … nine |
| 12 | In the Marstons Welsh Counties Bowling League , Deganwy were sent crashing to their first defeat of the season , 7–3 fall at Esclusham , to have their lead cut at the top to 10 points . |