Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] first [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 2 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 3 | Ottakars , the eight strong chain of bookshops in the south of England , has opened its first stand-alone children 's bookshop in a property next door to its branch at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 5 | Napier University awarded its first overseas students ' scholarship certificates to seven students , in November . |