Example sentences of "[pos pn] first [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My homesite was Cape Wrath but before I ever made my first flight a Man came and … ’ and he began to tell her his story , of the Zoo , of the Cages , of the Men there and his sudden escape … only leaving out mention of the other eagles in the Cages for in his heart he knew their pride would ask that he did not mention their names to a free eagle , nor would they wish for pity from outside . |
| 2 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 3 | The typical monthly or quarterly report has on its first page a list of problems , that is , the areas where results fall short of expectations . |
| 4 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |
| 5 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 6 | Immovable and unyielding , England openside flanker PETER WINTERBOTTOM has been an almost permanent feature of England sides since he won his first cap a decade ago . |
| 7 | Nobbs also claims to have told his old mate Peter Tinniswood to make his first novel a comedy ; the result was A Touch Of Daniel , which later became the equally God-like I Did n't Know You Cared telly series . |