Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a first class [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector .
2 She got a first class degree at the end of it all , so I ca n't have done so badly !
3 So I mean y'know j it may help you get a first class mark if you 're a good candidate by writing lots , but generally writing lots does n't ensure that you get a good mark .
4 Yet satellite television is revolutionising entertainment as we know it in Britain today — the trouble is sometimes it sounds as if you need a first class degree to join in !
5 Whatever happens in 1992 we must all work to make our customers appreciate that they receive a first class service .
6 They get a first class view of the comings and goings of the national tabloid , including visits by pop stars in recent months .
7 They did a first class piece of work on where the housing market was likely to go over the next 10 years .
8 On 15 September some 80 guests were present at an Overseas Reception at London Weekend Television House , where they had a first class view of the flypast from the eighteenth floor .
9 " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . "
10 ‘ Like me , he has a first class assistant boss in Colin McCurdy .
11 And I think it 's a very fine piece of work for which he received a first class mark incidentally .
12 He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later .
13 He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history .
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