Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The locomotive is due to arrive at Bury by road and make its first appearance at a hastily-organised Great Western Weekend over the weekend of November 14–15 .
2 Liverpool 's third choice keeper is set to jump queue ahead of David James and make his first appearance of the season in the absence of the suspended Bruce Grobbelaar .
3 Liverpool 's third choice keeper is set to jump queue ahead of David James and make his first appearance of the season in the absence of the suspended Bruce Grobbelaar .
4 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 ?
5 Go right round a f these the field and cut your first swathe out and tie it up with a a load of the straw that you 'd cut and bind it up , bundle it up and shove that in the hedge bottom .
6 Perhaps you could begin by taking a wide-angle shot or two of the house and the garden , so set the zoom to wide angle and select your first shooting position .
7 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 .
8 Having got signed in a hurry , Blink wisely decided to take their time and get their first records right .
9 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 .
10 What 's more you can cut out the coupon opposite and get your first pack at around half price .
11 After thanking all Scottish Nuclear staff for their ‘ quite exceptional ’ efforts over the year , the Chairman ended , ‘ I remain confident Scottish Nuclear can continue to improve its competitiveness and maintain its first class record of safety .
12 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 .
13 And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid .
14 ‘ I worked for Vincent O'Brien for a year and it 's great to come back here and win my first classic , ’ said trainer John Gosden .
15 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 .
16 It also gives participants an opportunity to see the complete video and express their first impressions .
17 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 .
18 Turn and go past the swimming baths and take your first right and you 're going more or less down to erm where that boy married what you
19 You can still go into a music store in Honolulu and buy his first records .
20 I was living in Mayfair and was just about to move from there and buy my first flat .
21 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 .
22 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 ) .
23 I take the tube and have my first puff and lean back upon the settee , my eyes closed , my legs spread slightly .
24 Tonight Kim and Neil take the plunge and spend their first night together .
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