Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example , take someone who tries to give up smoking and thinks that they have lost the fight completely when they want their first cigarette . |
| 2 | Manufacturers — such as Compaq Computer Corp , which rushed to discuss its Pentium plans in general terms , say they expect their first Pentium machines to list for as little as $4,500 , half the price set for early model 80486 machines in 1989 . |
| 3 | Manufacturers — such as Compaq Computer Corp , which rushed to discuss its Pentium plans in general terms , say they expect their first Pentium machines to list for as little as $4,500 , half the price set for early model 80486 machines in 1989 . |
| 4 | As soon as they emerge , they face their first hazard , the race through their mother 's fur to her pouch . |
| 5 | Does that mean even before they pay their first premium ? |
| 6 | Manchester United are determined that if they win their first championship for 25 years the celebrations will be in front of their own supporters . |
| 7 | On February 18 they start at the Tap and Spile in Darlington where they will play every other Tuesday , and on February 23 they play their first date at Queen Catherines Hotel , Osmotherly , which is also a fortnightly affair . |
| 8 | However , Manchester United 's backlog of League fixtures means that unless they play their First Division game with West Ham that night they could not finish the season by the first weekend in May . |
| 9 | The following week , they play their first league home match , when Bective will provide the opposition . |
| 10 | If they survive their first outing on a ‘ real course ’ and still have the golf bug , they can progress to the 2,294-yard Shey Copse course , a nine-hole mixture of par-3s and medium length par-4s . |
| 11 | But when they take their first flight into the outside world , their losses begin . |
| 12 | If an increase or decrease in the value of one variable is accompanied with an increase or decrease , respectively , in the other , the correlation is positive ( for instance , the later women marry the later they have their first child ) while , if the positive change in one variable is incidental to a negative change in another , the correlation is negative ( e.g. the later women marry , the lower their completed fertility ) . |
| 13 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 14 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 15 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 16 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 17 | Many women do not know any other mothers locally when they have their first baby and this is an ideal group for finding support and friendship . |
| 18 | From a tough neighbourhood , they spend their first summer playing a rich beach resort club . |
| 19 | And of course such a perception produces its own reaction , in the emphasis on common sense and experience , in people who boast of having attended the University of Life , or feel it their duty to sort out young graduates when they enter their first job , or even in anti-intellectual or irrationalist currents in higher education itself ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 20 | The term " evening " can sometimes be something of a misnomer , as some of them publish their first editions midmorning . |