Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was taken off his drip again overnight and has had his first proper feed . |
| 2 | It believes the worst is over and has launched its first ever rights issue a call for £104m . |
| 3 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 4 | He was loudly booed by the 10,000 crowd as he walked in to bat and prepared to face his first ball , Jamaicans being of the opinion that he shares the blame for some poor World Cup selections . |
| 5 | That lesson was fully absorbed when Walter Smith took over as Rangers ' manager and made Goram his first domestic signing — and the only Scottish goalkeeper ever to have cost a seven-figure sum . |
| 6 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 7 | Waiting in the wings is the C112 supercar , powered , we now believe , by the new V12 engine and set to make its first public appearance at the Frankfurt show in September . |
| 8 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 9 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 10 | Still , IBM is undeterred and hopes to launch its first pen-based computer some time this quarter . |
| 11 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 12 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 13 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 14 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 15 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 16 | Crossing the Jotunheim in 1872 he had seen Störe Skagastölstind , the Matterhorn of the northern Alps , and resolved to make its first ascent . |
| 17 | Cantona 's eventual finish , a delightful turn and shot to claim his first goal for United , was a peach . |
| 18 | One went to bed at the house … and awoke to find himself first being strangled , then taken to a bath . |
| 19 | ‘ I got to Holland and Belgium last August with the Ireland training panel but failed to win my first cap , but helping Ulster to another Leinster Regiment Cup may be just the springboard this time . ’ |