Example sentences of "and [verb] their first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Agnes introduced the Poor Clares into the Convent of St Saviour and became their first abbess in 1235 . |
| 2 | Now you 're gon na want a pin , these are rather small pins , I recommend that peop people who have got large hands try and fit their first aid kit out with large pins , they 're much easier to handle , but firstly they do not put pins in their mouths for obvious reasons , either , either have it on the table open ready or just pop it in the front of shirt while you do this bit , okay ? |
| 3 | They are 60 today and celebrating their first birthday together in more than 30 years . |
| 4 | Lloyd recommends that the British public at large should pop along to Junior Wimbledon and get their first look at a player he believes can finally end the seemingly interminable search for Britain 's first major male champion since the sepia days of Fred Perry . |
| 5 | Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right . |
| 6 | This week , in the inaugural Fiji International Sevens , the Scots will be able to devote further studies to the Australians and get their first glimpse of Tonga , against whom they are also drawn in the Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 7 | Stage 1 invites group members to spend five minutes in quiet reflection , a space in which to clear minds crowded with concerns of the teaching day , to focus on the cartoon and commit their first reactions to paper . |
| 8 | It 's the league or nothing now for the Blues , beaten for the second week running and suffering their first defeat at Windsor Park since last December 16 . |
| 9 | Paul Rideout 's first league goal for Everton was also the first by one of the club 's strikers at The City Ground for almost 23 years - and brought their first league win at Nottingham Forest for more than 10 years . |
| 10 | That 's the verdict of manager Arthur Cox , who is desperate that his men show their true colours at West Ham and score their first win of the season . |
| 11 | It also gives participants an opportunity to see the complete video and express their first impressions . |
| 12 | The group reformed and had their first exhibition in 1949 . |
| 13 | Last night the Giants , their neighbours from across the San Francisco Bay , sealed the National League championship series against the Chicago Cubs , winning 3-2 to complete a 4-1 victory and take their first pennant for 27 years . |
| 14 | Logie and Dujon , once again , had other ideas , and exceeded their first innings partnership by one run . |
| 15 | As the individual WFS country data show , in some populations , mainly on the Indian sub-continent , where women marry and have their first child at an early age , the first born is the child least likely to survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 16 | On average , owner-occupiers have tended to marry about one year later and have their first birth about two years later than local authority tenants ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Tonight Kim and Neil take the plunge and spend their first night together . |
| 18 | The Dadaists , a nonsense name chosen at random , evolved the idea of a miniature variety show and held their first show in a little bar , the Cabaret Voltaire . |
| 19 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |